quotes

"The difference between the old ball player and the new ball player is the jersey.  The old ball player cared about the name on the front. The new ball player cares about the name on the back."

  Steve Garvey, former Los Angeles Dodgers & Padres (#6 retired): NL MVP, NL Gold Glove (4x), All-Star game (10x) MVP (2x), Roberto Clemente Award (formerly Commissioner's)

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
 Earl Weaver former manager of the Baltimore Orioles, AL Champions (4x) and World Series Champions (1x).

"The game has a cleanness, if you do a good job, the numbers [statistics] say so.  You don't have to ask anyone or play politics.  You don't have to wait for the reviews."

Sandy Koufax, former Dodgers pitcher, MLB Hall of Fame, Cy Young Award winner (3x), NL MVP, NL All-Star (6x),World Series MVP (2x), number #32 retired.

"The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running."

Joe Garagiola, former NL catcher and TV baseball announcer; Ford C. Frick Award (Baseball Hall of Fame).

"Don't alibi bad hops, anybody can field the good ones."

Joe McCarthy, former manager (24 years) all-time best winning percentage, MLB Hall of Fame, 7 World Series Championships, 9  League Championships.

"There's no such thing as enough baseball"

Bill Rigney, New York Giants infielder: NL All-Star (1x), original manager of the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Angels 

"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning.  I think about it all day and I dream about it all night.  The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."

Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, MLB Hall of Fame, MLB Player of the Year, AL MVP, AL Triple Crown, AL Gold Glove (7x), AL All-Star game (18x) MVP (1x),   

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."

Red Barber, radio and TV announcer; Ford C. Frick Award (Baseball Hall of Fame), National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, American Radio Hall of Fame.

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game.  True.  And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.  Not all holes, or games, are created equal."

George F. Will, an American newspaper columnist, journalist and author (Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball); Pulitzer Prize winner.  

"You see you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

 Jim Bouton, former MLB Pitcher, 2 World Series game wins, 1 AL All-Star game appearance, co-invented Big-League Chew, wrote Ball Four: The Final Pitch.

"I'm sorry I can't be here today because I'm somewhere else."

Yogi Berra, former New York Yankee catcher: MLB Hall of Fame, AL MVP (3x), AL All-Star game (18x), number #8 retired, and manager; on why he could not attend an event.

"No, our similarities are different."

Dale Berra, former Pirates, Yankees, Astros infielder on whether he is anything like his father.

"Baseball is the only game left for people.  To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches.  To play football, you have to be the same width."

-Bill Veck, famous and controversial owner of the St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox