Baseball Player Quotes

Jackie Robinson

Babe Ruth

Joe DiMaggio

Omar Bradley

Ichiro Suzuki

Mickey Mantle

Ty Cobb

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

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 17 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?

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

All the big sportswriters seemed to enjoy writing about me as an ignorant cotton-mill boy with nothing but lint where my brains ought to be. That was all right with me. I was able to fool a lot of pitchers and managers and club owners I wouldn't have been able to fool if they'd thought I was smarter.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Is it unmanly to cry? If so, I must confess my unmanliness, for on this occasion it was impossible for me to repress the tears from coursing down my cheeks, as I realized that the last of nature's grandest and noblest earthly beings had passed away. But the tears I shed apparently softened my nature, and as I stood buried in the depth of meditation concerning the preceding events, I became impregnated with the desire to try and do some real good in the world; to make myself useful to mankind; to live for others instead of myself alone.

You got a resident corner here... Shit-down corner. Now it's gotta be one or the other. If you ain't gotta tackle, you'd better cover. If you ain't gotta cover, you'd better tackle. THEY AIN'T DOIN' NOTHING [EITHER]

I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Your body is just like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use.

I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.

Pedro Martínez

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Maybe I'm not in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame like so many of my baseball buddies, but I'm happy I had the chance to play pro ball and am especially proud of my contributions to my country. Perhaps I could not hit like Babe Ruth, but I spoke more languages than he did.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

We are too apt to attribute to accident or occult influence that which we cannot understand.

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

It's done a lot of players a lot of good. And obviously, this drug is a drug where it's dose-related. Anything in overdose will destroy your liver. I mean, look at cigarettes and look at liquor. Cigarettes says on the packet, this will kill you; it will cause cancer; and you're still smoking it.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

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.