| Oct 27 | "Somewhere, Gene Autry is smiling right now," ~Bud Selig |
| Oct 26 | "There's no room for fear here, or else you're going to go home. We battle until the last out of the game. Until they kick us out of the park and say you've got to go home, we're not giving up." ~Scott Spiezio |
| Oct 25 | "There's no panic in here. Yeah, we're down. But it's a seven-game series for a reason. For us to win, it's going to have to go seven." ~Darin Erstad |
| Oct 24 | "I won't talk about me. This World Series is bigger than any individual player. You just want to make a contribution." ~Jeff Kent |
| Oct 23 | "I was just trying to get a pitch over the plate I could hit hard." ~David Bell |
| Oct 22 | "I never lose in October." ~Livan Hernandez, before the 2002 World Series |
| Oct 21 | "If we didn't have confidence in anyone in our bullpen except John Lackey and Francisco (Rodriguez) and Percy (closer Troy Percival), it's going to be tough for us to win this series." ~Mike Scioscia |
| Oct 20 | "We knew there was going to be a hero in the dugout, and tonight it was me." ~Tim Salmon |
| Oct 19 | "For Barry to start a Series like that, it's a very good sign. He was very focused tonight, very silent." ~Dusty Baker |
| Oct 18 | "If Anaheim continues getting contributions from everybody (three home runs in one game from Adam Kennedy? Strikeouts by the dozen from reliever Francisco Rodriguez?), I don't see the Angels getting beat. They've got a very special thing going on right now." ~Scott Miller |
| Oct 17 | "I think this team is attractive to the nation just because of the grit it's shown. Coming from nowhere, the Cinderella story. There is an attractiveness to this team. A lot of the guys are understated. And we've got our star players who have toiled in obscurity. Now they're coming out, and it's a good group -- gutty and gritty. Beating the Yankees put us on the map." ~Bud Black |
| Oct 16 | "Growing up in Southern California, there were so many options. The Dodgers, the Angels, the Lakers, the Rams and Raiders. In San Francisco, they're loyal. They root for the Orange and Black." ~J.T. Snow |
| Oct 15 |
"...If Barry Bonds stays healthy, [San Francisco] will hang around and eventually be very dangerous. The NL West is a good division top to bottom, but it isn't a great division, and 88-90 wins may be enough to win it." ~Peter Gammons' 2002 Predictions (Postscript: The Giants won 95 games but did not win the division) "How good are [the Anaheim Angels]? ... They are a dangerous, potentially competitive team in the best division in baseball, which is why it will be so hard for the wild card to come out of the AL West." ~Peter Gammons' 2002 Predictions (Postscript: The Angels won 99 games and were the American League wild card.) |
| Oct 14 | "The Giants are going to the World Series!" ~Joe Buck |
| Oct 13 | "It's like we're paving a new road here. I think this has put to rest a lot of that pain in the past." ~Tim Salmon |
| Oct 12 | "We had to win this game today to make it a series. If you go down 3-0, it would be really tough. We made it a competitive series. But they're still in charge." ~Tony La Russa |
| Oct 11 | "It's fantastic. I've never seen so much fan support. It's a great feeling to come home and play in an atmosphere like this. It's like playing in Yankee Stadium -- but with the fans behind us." ~Troy Percival |
| Oct 10 | "To come in here and win two games, you think about how many times we've been heartbroken in the bottom of the ninth in this park. We had a number of heroes tonight." ~Dusty Baker |
| Oct 9 | "This is the playoffs, you have fun, you enjoy it. I don't think I did anything wrong. We were kicking their butts, and they wanted to do something to upset me." ~Kenny Lofton |
| Oct 8 | "This is the game we play against Anaheim every time. One run, one way or the other, one pitch decides it. It's exciting baseball. You can't ask for much more as a fan or as a player." ~A.J. Pierzynski |
| Oct 7 | "I'm happy for the city of San Fancisco, our organization, all the players ... man, this is a wonderful, wonderful feeling." ~Dusty Baker |
| Oct 6 | "We weren't supposed to be here! We weren't supposed to be here!" ~Torii Hunter |
| Oct 5 | "It's been a long time coming for myself and this organization, a lot of blood, sweat and tears. To finally come through and do it, it's just special." ~Tim Salmon |
| Oct 4 | "I think you have to credit the Angels. We were winning 6-1, we just couldn't hold it. Our pitching just couldn't hold it." ~Joe Torre |
| Oct 3 | "They're the world champions and will keep fighting until the end, but it will be a nice flight back to St. Louis." ~Fernando Vina |
| Oct 2 | "Obviously, Barry gets most of the attention, and he deserves the attention, but we have a really good ballclub up and down the lineup." ~Russ Ortiz |
| Oct 1 | "I feel very, very bad that I put us in such a deep hole from the get-go. My slider was flat. My fastball fell on the middle of the plate. Going up against probably the best lineup in the National League, the two don't mix." ~Randy Johnson |
| Sept 29 | "The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving." ~Tim McCarver |
| Sept 28 | "I am ... happy to speak my words at the university graduation. A lot of people have been quoting me ever since I came to play for the Yankees in 1946. But, as I once said, I really didn't say everything I said. So now it's my turn. I want to give some of my famous advice to the graduates. First, never give up, because it ain't over 'til it's over. Second, during the years ahead, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. Third, don't always follow the crowd, because nobody goes there any more; it's too crowded. Fourth, stay alert. You can observe a lot by watching. Fifth, and last, remember that whatever you do in life, 90 percent of it is half mental. In closing, I want to quote myself again: Thank you, Montclair State University, for making this day necessary." ~Yogi Berra |
| Sept 27 | "Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredicatable." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Sept 26 | "Baseball is democracy in action: in it all men are 'free and equal,' regardless of race, nationality, or creed. Every man is given the rightful opportunity to rise to the top on his own merits ... It is the fullest expression of freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly in our national life." ~Francis Trevelyan Miller |
| Sept 25 | "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is is disguised combat. For all it's gentility, it's almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." ~Willie Mays |
| Sept 24 | "Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle." ~Thomas Boswell |
| Sept 23 | "Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease." ~Walter F. O'Malley |
| Sept 22 | "The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between." ~Bill Veeck |
| Sept 21 | "In baseball, you don't know nothing." ~Yogi Berra |
| Sept 20 | "Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Sept 19 | "Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything." ~Toby Harrah |
| Sept 18 | "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast." ~Joe Garagiola |
| Sept 17 | "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." ~Barry Switzer |
| Sept 16 | "I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports." ~Stan Isaacs |
| Sept 15 | "It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden, you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations." ~Vida Blue |
| Sept 14 | "I remember a teacher once asking me, 'Don't you know anything?' and I said I don't even suspect anything." ~Yogi Berra |
| Sept 13 | "I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Sept 12 | "It's a beautiful day for a night game." ~Announcer Frankie Frisch |
| Sept 11 | "You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too." ~Roy Campanella |
| Sept 10 | "A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz." ~Humphrey Bogart |
| Sept 9 | "No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined." ~Paul Gallico |
| Sept 8 | "I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile." ~Tom Clark |
| Sept 7 | "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." ~Yogi Berra |
| Sept 6 | "On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Sept 5 | "The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says 'You mean third base?'" ~Henny Youngman |
| Sept 4 | "Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa." ~Bob Veale |
| Sept 3 | "Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks." ~Bill Lee |
| Sept 2 | "I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for $3,000. That bothered my dad at the time, because he didn't have that kind of dough to pay out. But eventually, he scraped it up." ~Bob Uecker |
| Sept 1 | "There's a fly ball to right field. DEEP right field. It's outta here! Off the wall." ~Ralph Kiner |
| Aug 31 | "They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Aug 30 | "It came down to us playing baseball or having our reputations and life ripped by the fans. Baseball would have never been the same if we had walked out.'' ~Steve Kline |
| Aug 29 | "It will be a late night, pizza, soda-adrenaline night. Negotiations are really sensitive now. It's hard to express optimism or pessimism.'' ~Jeff Zimmerman |
| Aug 28 | "A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff." ~Babe Ruth |
| Aug 27 | "If Satch
(Satchel Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we'd cinch
the pennant by July Fourth and go fishing until World Series
time." - Dizzy Dean |
| Aug 26 | "Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets, and the Liberty Bell." ~Bo Belinsky |
| Aug 25 | "The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running." ~Joe Garagiola |
| Aug 24 | "I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house." ~Yogi Berra |
| Aug 23 | "Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Aug 22 | "They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids." ~Tito Fuentes |
| Aug 21 | "I don't put any foreign substances on the baseball. Everything I use is from the good old USA." ~George Frazier |
| Aug 20 | "The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game." ~Earl Weaver |
| Aug 19 | "While he had a total of 40 home runs in his first two big-league seasons, it is unlikely that Aaron will break any records in this department." ~Furman Bisher |
| Aug 18 | "Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking." ~Gene Mauch |
| Aug 17 | "We were overwhelming underdogs." ~Yogi Berra |
| Aug 16 | "Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Aug 15 | "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." ~Satchel Paige |
| Aug 14 | "Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products." ~Bob Eucker |
| Aug 13 | "I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them. There's no future in it." ~Sparky Anderson |
| Aug 12 | "Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes" ~Curt Flood |
| Aug 11 | "Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork." ~Willie Stargell |
| Aug 10 | "He is a big clog in their machine." ~Yogi Berra |
| Aug 9 | "Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Aug 8 | "Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed." ~Ty Cobb |
| Aug 7 | "You can't hit what you can't see." ~Walter Johnson |
| Aug 6 | "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away." ~Tommy Lasorda |
| Aug 5 | "Most one-run games are lost, not won." ~Gene Mauch |
| Aug 4 | "Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess." ~Dick Williams |
| Aug 3 | "How can you think and hit at the same time?" ~Yogi Berra |
| Aug 2 | "They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe." ~Jerry Coleman |
| Aug 1 | "Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years." ~Cy Young |
| July 31 | "A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage." ~Pete Rose |
| July 30 | "When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did — but it was Mrs. Koufax's." ~Tommy John |
| July 29 | "I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. 'I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college,' I said. (I was just kidding)." ~Bo Jackson |
| July 28 | "'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees." ~Senator Joe Lieberman |
| July 27 | "Swing at the strikes." ~Yogi Berra |
| July 26 | "Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything." ~Jerry Coleman |
| July 25 | "There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure." ~Mike Penner |
| July 24 | "You
can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from
defeat." ~Christy Mathewson |
| July 23 | "The greatest thrill in the world is to end the game with a home run and watch everybody else walk off the field while you're running the bases on air." ~Al Rosen |
| July 22 | "They should move first base back one step to eliminate all those close plays." ~John Lowenstein |
| July 21 | "They brought me up with the Brooklyn Dodgers, which at the time was in Brooklyn." ~Casey Stengel |
| July 20 | "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." ~Yogi Berra |
| July 19 | "I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes." ~Phil Rizzuto |
| July 18 | "I watch a lot of baseball on the radio." ~Gerald Ford |
| July 17 | "The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. You take a team with twenty-five a**holes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees." ~Bill Lee |
| July 16 | "When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: 'Join Ruth and see the world.' ~Columnist Heywood Broun |
| July 15 | "Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson." ~Willie Mays |
| July 14 | "Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things." ~Danny Murtaugh |
| July 13 | "If you don't catch the ball, you catch the home." ~Yogi Berra |
| July 12 | "That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it." ~Jerry Coleman |
| July 11 | "Baseball is the belly of society. Straighten out baseball and you'll straighten out the rest of the world." ~Bill Lee |
| July 10 | "Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers." ~George W. Bush |
| July 9 | "They got everything you could ask for in an All-Star Game except a winner." ~Bob Brenly |
| July 8 | "The toughest assignment a baseball reporter has is the annual Major League All-Star game, because of its many added dimensions. Not only what happens on the field, but the players' team affiliations and past All-Star records, or lack of same, plus ever-changing lineup and position switches, plus the unique characteristics of the game itself - all these must be handled swiftly, completely, briefly, colorfully if possible, and with some semblance of putting first things first." - Charles Einstein |
| July 7 | "They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays." ~Ted Williams |
| July 6 | "The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside." ~Jerry Coleman |
| July 5 | "They can talk about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Stan Musial and all the rest, but I'm sure not one of them could hold cards and spades to (Ted) Williams in his sheer knowledge of hitting. He studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market, and could spot at a glance mistakes that others couldn't see in a week." ~Carl Yastrzemski |
| July 4 | "Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star." ~Tris Speaker, Spring 1921 |
| July 3 |  "I think there are only three things
America will be known for 2,000 years from now then they study
this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
~Gerald Early" |
| July 2 | "Baseball to me is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people." ~Steve Busby |
| July 1 | "It's often said you win with pitching and defense. That's not true. You stop yourself from losing with pitching and defense, until the offense finds a way to score runs." ~Don Sutton |
| June 30 | "There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature." ~Buck Martinez |
| June 29 | "I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost five." ~Yogi Berra |
| June 28 | "It's a basehit on the error by Roberts." ~Jerry Coleman |
| June 27 | "I hope this is not a fruition of things to come." ~Joe Carter |
| June 26 | Joe McCarthy's Ten Commandments for Success in Baseball: (1) Nobody ever became a ballplayer by walking after a ball. (2) You will never become a .300 hitter unless you take the bat off your shoulder. (3) An outfielder who throws in back of a runner is locking the barn after the horse is stolen. (4) Keep your head up and you may not have to keep it down. (5) When you start to slide, slide. He who changes his mind may have to change a good leg for a bad one. (6) Do not alibi on bad hops. Anybody can field the good ones. (7) Always run them out. You never can tell. (8) Do not quit. (9) Do not fight too much with the umpires. You cannot expect them to be as perfect as you are. (10) A pitcher who hasn't control hasn't anything. |
| June 25 | "All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims." ~Lou Holtz |
| June 24 | "To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback." ~Steve Hovley |
| June 23 | "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry Mom, but nobody beats me.'" ~Leo Durocher |
| June 22 | "DK (Darryl Kile) was a very special player. He was always the perfect teammate to all the guys who played with him." ~Don Baylor |
| June 21 | "That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures." ~Jerry Coleman |
| June 20 | "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." ~Casey Stengel |
| June 19 | "When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove." ~Vance Law |
| June 18 | "The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game." ~Glenn Dickey |
| June 17 | "You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity ... No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball." ~Albert Einstein |
| June 16 | "When I played ball, I didn't play for fun ... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest." ~Ty Cobb |
| June 15 | "You can see a lot just by observing." ~Yogi Berra |
| June 14 | "I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him." ~Jerry Coleman |
| June 13 | "There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o'clock will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty will leave at five." ~Dave Bristol, ML manager, 1966-80 |
| June 12 | "I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how 150-plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then." ~Richie Ashburn |
| June 11 | "Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball." ~Ken Harrelson |
| June 10 | "One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something." ~Nolan Ryan |
| June 9 | "The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor; I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting." ~Hank Aaron |
| June 8 | "All pitchers are liars or crybabies." ~Yogi Berra |
| June 7 | "Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall -- and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres." ~Jerry Coleman |
| June 6 | "Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals." ~Dick Williams |
| June 5 | "Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again." ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968 |
| June 4 | "Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." ~Rod Kanehl |
| June 3 | "It was too bad I wasn't a second baseman; then I'd probably have seen a lot more of my husband." ~Karolyn Rose |
| June 2 | "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." ~Earl Weaver |
| June 1 | "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrows? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeeper and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something. When you have a father and mother work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know. I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. And I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for." ~Lou Gehrig |
| May 31 | "You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different." ~Dale Berra |
| May 30 | "Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way. If one or the other does not happen, bankruptcy stares every team in the face." ~A.G. Spalding, 1881 |
| May 29 | "If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it." ~Ted Williams |
| May 28 | "There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works." ~Charlie Lau |
| May 27 | "The first big league game I ever saw was at the Polo Grounds. My father took me, I remember it so well, the green grass and green stands. it was like seeing Oz." ~John Curtis |
| May 26 |
"To me and many others, the Mariners are the icon of the state of Washington, and I'm proud of my state heritage, and how the Mariners are representing it. . . However, in a day, a week, or a month's time, we may be called out to a place where we cannot hear the news of the Mariners winning the World Series. . . even though we are all weary and uncertain about the future, we are definitely ready to defend our country. That's our job. For all of those who play sports back home, keep doing your job well." ~Hospitalman Chris Reider of the U.S. Navy, 19 year old from Selah, Washington on the USS Peleliu that is out to sea. (Source: Art Thiel, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Medic tells wounded America: Sports has a noble duty, too" - October 9, 2001) |
| May 25 | "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." ~Babe Ruth |
| May 25 | "Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction." ~Robert Frost |
| May 24 | "I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over." ~Don Drysdale |
| May 23 | "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." ~Warren Spahn |
| May 22 | "One thing all managers hear that doesn't make any sense at all is for a pitcher to say, 'I ought to have a right to stay in and win or lose my own game.' He doesn't have that right. It isn't just his game. There are 24 other players who have a stake in it, plus the manager and the coaches, and everybody else in the organization. All have worked to field the team and are affected by what happens." ~Harry Walker |
| May 21 | "How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that." ~Ted Kluszewski |
| May 20 | "Aw, how could Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun ... he's from Mexico!" ~Harry Carry |
| May 19 | "Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical." ~Yogi Berra |
| May 18 | "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." ~Dave Barry |
| May 17 | "I think a baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment." ~Lowell Cohn |
| May 16 | "It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable." ~Joe Garagiola |
| May 15 | "I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown." ~Hank Aaron |
| May 13 | "Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet." ~Pete Rose |
| May 12 | "If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them " ~Yogi Berra |
| May 11 | "The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?" ~Johnny Mize |
| May 10 | "When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake." ~Matt Williams |
| May 9 | "Top Ten Signs an Umpire is Nuts. Number ten: His chest protector has large silicone implants. Number nine. Cleans home plate with his tongue. Number eight. The first batter has worked the count up to 46 balls, 29 strikes. Number seven. Makes own face mask out of bubble wrap and duct tape. Number six. Was seen checking into Motel 6 with the Philly Phanatic. Number five. Three small and very telling words: wears a cape. Number four. Keeps running up to fat guys in the stands and yelling, 'Babe Ruth! You're alive!' Number three. Insists that 'Baseball Fever' is the cause of that weird rash on his back. Number two. Whenever he sees a player adjusting himself, shouts, 'Ball two!' Number one. Long after the game has ended, he's still squatting." ~David Letterman |
| May 8 | "What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability." ~George Bernard Shaw |
| May 7 | "A baseball box score is a democratic thing. It doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day." ~Branch Rickey |
| May 6 | "The whole concept is to know what the guy up at bat is looking for but throw it at a different speed than he expects." Mike Boddicker |
| May 5 | "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball." ~Jim Murray |
| May 4 | "My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out, sometimes by striking them out." ~Tom Seaver |
| May 3 | "Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball ... you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that." ~Nomar Garciaparra |
| May 2 | "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." ~Ted Williams |
| May 1 | "Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move." ~Satchel Paige |
| April 30 | "When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing ... I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| April 29 | "I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself." ~Willie Stargell |
| April 28 | "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting." ~Yogi Berra |
| April 27 | "I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out." ~Bill "Spaceman" Lee |
| April 26 | "Bob Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen ... He always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs." ~Tim McCarver |
| April 25 | "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~Jim Bouton |
| April 24 | "Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean that for two years out of the 14 I played, I never touched the ball." ~Norm Cash |
| April 23 | "The most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." ~Bob Lemon |
| April 22 | "No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body...As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications." ~Sadaharu Oh |
| April 21 | "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." ~Rogers Hornsby |
| April 20 | "Strikeouts are boring. They're fascist. Throw some ground balls, it's more Democratic." ~Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, Bull Durham |
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