Quotes of: Yogi Keyword

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

John McGraw

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Jorge Posada

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

Johan Santana

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

Joe Torre

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

Joe Torre

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Joe Torre

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Joe Torre

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.

Justin Verlander

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

Cy Young

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

Cy Young

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Don Baylor

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

Don Drysdale

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Don Drysdale

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Dennis Eckersley

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

Dwight Gooden

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

Derek Jeter

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Derek Jeter

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Derek Jeter