Quotes of: Babes Keyword

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

Jason Giambi

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Jason Giambi

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Jason Giambi

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

John Kruk

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

Don Baylor

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

David Cone

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Dazzy Vance

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

Leon Day

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Schmidt

Doc: [to Babe] Do you ever clean this armpit of a place? How can you live like this?

Marathon Man

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Fairly

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

Mark Teixeira

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Pat Gillick

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

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

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Alvin Dark

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

Al Leiter