Quotes of: Yogi Keyword

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

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

Scott Patterson

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

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Michael Jordan

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

I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.

Bert Blyleven

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Bobby Bonilla

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

Bobby Bonilla

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

Bill Dickey

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

Phil Rizzuto

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Ted Williams

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Walter Alston