Quotes of: Babe-ruth Keyword

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

David Ortiz

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

David Ortiz

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Dan Quisenberry

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Dan Quisenberry

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Dan Quisenberry

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

Dick Schaap

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Dontrelle Willis

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Ernie Banks

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

Billy Evans

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Brian Jordan

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Branch Rickey

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Billy Sunday

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Billy Sunday

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Bruce Sutter

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

Bobby Thomson

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

Chief Bender

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

Greg Maddux

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

Hank Aaron