General

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton

Haven't they suffered enough
Beano Cook, on giving free passes to former Iranian hostages

The first big league game I ever saw was at the Polo Grounds. My father took me, I remember it so well, the green grass and green stands. it was like seeing Oz
John Curtis, MLB Pitcher

Baseball is the only sport I know when you're on the offensive the other team controls the ball
Ken Harrelson

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
Rod Kanehl

Baseball is the belly of society. Straighten out baseball and you'll straighten out the rest of the world
Bill Lee

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.
Bill Lee

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
Phil Rizzuto

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.
Sam Rutigliano, on the USFL

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man ever come to perfection
Red Smith

I've had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengal

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa
Bob Veale

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Wes Westrum.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"
Henny Youngman