There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. – Tommy Lasorda
I’m not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things – not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. – Stephen Jay Gould
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues. – Tom Seaver
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’ – Tom Seaver
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. – Whitey Ford
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. – Ted Williams
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit. – Stan Musial
I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn’t have that type of advantage in hockey. – Tom Glavine
I was a hyper kid, so I didn’t want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball. – Shane Larkin
The baseball fights, you don’t ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that’s where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you’ve got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don’t even see half the time. – Tom Glavine
In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody. – Terry Francona
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn’t pick me to play baseball. – Scott Hamilton
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you’ve got to shut the doors down. – Tommy Lasorda
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that’s the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. – Tommy Lasorda
I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it’s just – you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people. – Theo Rossi
It’s a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it. – Vin Scully
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. – Wade Boggs
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. – Willie Stargell
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation. – Temple Grandin
The great thing about baseball is when you’re done, you’ll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I’ll tell them I had amnesia. – Sparky Anderson
Just because you’re down to your last strike, you’re not out yet. You can always do more. You’ll always have more at-bats to take. That’s true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally. – Tony La Russa
No one wants to watch anybody play baseball in a movie. What is interesting is what baseball means or sports in general means to those people doing it. – Wyatt Russell