| "Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world." |
Babe Ruth |
Roger K. |
| "Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you." |
Reggie Jackson |
Roger K. |
| "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." |
Bob Feller |
Roger K. |
| "If you're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." |
Brooks Robinson |
Roger K. |
| "The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." |
Ted Williams |
Roger Kalinowski |
| I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. |
Bob Gibson |
Bob F. |
| "A ball bat is a wondrous weapon." |
Ty Cobb |
William Tangel |
| "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." |
Pete Rose |
William Tangel |
| "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." |
Yogi Berra |
William Tangel |
| "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." |
Yogi Berra |
William Tangel |
| Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. |
Pete Rose |
Mike Fandozzi |
| "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." |
Jackie Robinson |
Mike Fandozzi |
| It ain't over till it's over. |
Yogi Berra |
Mike Fandozzi |
| "If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam |
Tom Seaver |
William Tangel |
| "God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan." |
Tom Seaver |
William Tangel |
| "They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it." |
Willie Mays |
William Tangel |
| "Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before." |
Casey Stengel |
William Tangel |
| "Let's play two." |
Ernie Banks |
dan hergott |
| "Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball." |
Harry Caray |
dan hergott |
| He's only seventeen and he runs like he's thirty.
—Casey Stengel, on why he kept Kranepool on the bench in 1962 |
Casey Stengel |
Linda Snyder |