Baseball
Quotes
Somebody's
got to win and somebody's got to lose, and I believe in letting the other
guy lose. -Pete Rose Cincinati Reds
Be
in a hurry to win don't be in a hurry to lose. -- John McGraw New
Giants Manager
You
can tell a team wants to win when guys spend more time looking at the win
and lost statistics than they do at their own statistics. -- Catfish
Hunter, New York Yankees
If
you don't play to win, why keep score? --Vernon Law, Pittsburgh
Pirates.
When
you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll
always be a loser. -- Mark (the Bird) Fidrych, Detroit Tigers
The
ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no
ballplayer at all. -- Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
There
are three types of ball players --- those who make things happen, those
who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens. -- Tommy
Lasorda, LA Dodgers
Show
me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
-- Sandy Koufax, LA Dodgers
Pitching
is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch. -- Sandy
Koufax, LA Dodgers
Just
take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes.
Home plate don't move. -- Satchel Paige.
A
pitcher needs two pitches -- one they're looking for and one to cross 'em
up. -- Warren Spahn, Boston Braves
Hitting
is timing, pitching is upsetting timing. -- Warren Spahn
In
my opinion, baseball is the hardest sport to play. To narrow it down
further, hitting a baseball is the single most difficult thing there is
in sports. It takes more skill to hit a baseball than it does to
do anything else. -- Ted Williams, 1967