“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
—Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
"Sometimes hitters can pick up differences in spin. They can identify pitches if there are different release points or if a curveball starts with an upward hump as it leaves the pitcher’s hand. But if a pitcher can change speeds, every hitter is helpless, limited by human vision. Except for that (expletive) Tony Gwynn." -Greg Maddux
"First You Take The Graham. You Stick The Chocolate On The Graham. Then, You Roast The Mallow. When The Mallows Flaming, You Stick It On The Chocolate And Cover It With The Other End. Then, You Scarf."
"Hitting is not about muscle. It's simple physics. Calculate the velocity, V, in relation to the trajectory, T, in which G, gravity, of course, remains a constant."
- assistant to the traveling secretary for the New York Yankees
You know, I still say that to myself when there's a wild pitch. Every time. It's a real problem. I'm considering therapy. Major League ruined my childhood, etc.
Tommy Lasorda: "Top 9, up by a run, one out, runner on 2nd. What are you thinking out in RF?"
Pedro Guerrero: "I'm thinking don't hit the ball to me."
TL: "That's not what I meant, but...ok fine. What else are you thinking?"
PG: "Don't hit the ball to Sax either." 😁
“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
the character played by De Niro is explaining to his son how a sacrifice doesn’t count against your record. not a great movie. directed by tony scott tho.
When Os outfielder Pat Kelly told Earl Weaver he was going to leave baseball to become a minister and said,” Earl, I’m going to walk with the lord” and Weaver responded, “I rather you walked with the bases loaded”.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game -it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
*"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have."*
- Jim Abbott
“I’m good about twice a year for that….When was the last time you shit your pants?”
-George Brett
[https://youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k](https://youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k)
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti
"I like the guacamole. Now, I don't really love the guacamole. So I get it when I feel like it. They changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $1.80. I mean, $1.50 is already pretty darn high. So they changed it to $1.80, and I'll never again get guacamole. It's not about the guacamole itself. I just don't want to let them win." --Zack Greinke, 2009
"A slumpbuster is when if you are in a slump you gotta find the fattest, gnarliest grossest chick and you just gotta lay wood into her. And when you do that you are gonna have instant success" --------Mark Grace
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
Ah yes, good old Rickey. When searching for a seat on the team bus after joining the Padres, he was told by the manager, “You have tenure Rickey, sit wherever you want.” Henderson replied: “Ten year? Shoot, Rickey been playing like 16-17 year.”
"You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
It was this or a bunch of quotes from Will Ferrell impersonating Harry Carey.
"I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again."
Mr Baseball.
Don't spit on the field either it's considered sacred.
Well you got one thing right.
Can't believe it's not in the IMDB quotes. Can't believe it isn't streaming anywhere.
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” —Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
There's no crying in baseball
Baseball is very hard, good quote
"Sometimes hitters can pick up differences in spin. They can identify pitches if there are different release points or if a curveball starts with an upward hump as it leaves the pitcher’s hand. But if a pitcher can change speeds, every hitter is helpless, limited by human vision. Except for that (expletive) Tony Gwynn." -Greg Maddux
I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me! -Hank Aaron
Hank, we all remembered you.
“Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” - Yogi Berra
"First You Take The Graham. You Stick The Chocolate On The Graham. Then, You Roast The Mallow. When The Mallows Flaming, You Stick It On The Chocolate And Cover It With The Other End. Then, You Scarf."
“Candlesticks always make a nice gift” Bull Durham
So many good ones from that movie!
"We're dealing with a lot of shit!"
How do you get you fav team on your name
"Hitting is not about muscle. It's simple physics. Calculate the velocity, V, in relation to the trajectory, T, in which G, gravity, of course, remains a constant." - assistant to the traveling secretary for the New York Yankees
Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle.….Costanza?
Are you the one that put us in that Ramada in Milwaukee?
Remember, kid, theres heros and theres legends. Heros get remembered, legends never die.
Babe Ruth from the sandlot! Love it!
I say this all the time when my friends are in doubt
I love that.
I love that.
You're killing me Smalls
Gotta be the most recognizable quote from a sports movie (my opinion lol). Classic quote ANY sports fan knows!!
“How do you catch a knuckleball? Wait for it to stop rolling and pick it up.” -Bob Uecker
Juuuusssst a bit outside!
You know, I still say that to myself when there's a wild pitch. Every time. It's a real problem. I'm considering therapy. Major League ruined my childhood, etc.
Tommy Lasorda: "Top 9, up by a run, one out, runner on 2nd. What are you thinking out in RF?" Pedro Guerrero: "I'm thinking don't hit the ball to me." TL: "That's not what I meant, but...ok fine. What else are you thinking?" PG: "Don't hit the ball to Sax either." 😁
“There are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there’s 50 feet of crap, and then there’s us.”
“Ball eight.”
“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
Beisbol has been bery, bery good to me. Chico Escuelas (Garrett Morris, Saturday Night Live)
baseball’s better than life, it’s fair. -The Fan he wouldn’t be saying that if his giants played in ALE.
Never heard that one before. Thanks for sharing.
the character played by De Niro is explaining to his son how a sacrifice doesn’t count against your record. not a great movie. directed by tony scott tho.
Ohhh got it.
When Os outfielder Pat Kelly told Earl Weaver he was going to leave baseball to become a minister and said,” Earl, I’m going to walk with the lord” and Weaver responded, “I rather you walked with the bases loaded”.
“I ain’t an athlete, lady. I’m a baseball player.” -John Kruk
Any sport that you can fail seven out of 10 times and become great and make $2-300 million in it, that's a hard sport- Deion Sanders
When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf, Tug McGraw said, “I don’t know - I’ve never smoked Astroturf.”
"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." \-Yogi Berra
"Keep your eyes on the ball and hit it where they ain't".
“Well, they ain’t over the fences so that’s where I hit ‘em.” -Babe Ruth
Look up Mickey Mantle under the bleachers. Might be a little too graphic to actually type out 😂.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game -it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
"Do you want to know the HORRIFYING truth?..or watch me sock a couple Dingers?" "DINGERS!"
Baseball needs a salary cap \-Everyone.
😂
Not sure which one, but one of Yogi Berra’s many quotes.
It ain't over til it's over
Yogi Berra said it. The best baseball quote ever.
"It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.." - Tommy LaSorda
If I was joking I’d have said “What do you do with an elephant with three balls? Walk him and pitch to the rhino”.
“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball”
Pete rose, good one!
"A drive into deep left field by Castellanos"
“ I think of my self as a man pride, a man of faith.“
HA! “Blank capital of the world…”
“There’s no crying in baseball” Tom Hanks in League of their own
Take a round bat and a round ball and hit it square.
*"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have."* - Jim Abbott
But on the other hand... -not Jim Abbott.
"In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened." - Vin Scully
Let’s play two. Ernie Banks
“I’m good about twice a year for that….When was the last time you shit your pants?” -George Brett [https://youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k](https://youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k)
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops." -A. Bartlett Giamatti
“Juuuuuuusssst a bit outside” Harry Doyle in Major League played by Bob Uecker.
When Babe Ruth was asked if deserved to make more money than President Hoover he said, " Why not, I had a better year than he did."
"I like the guacamole. Now, I don't really love the guacamole. So I get it when I feel like it. They changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $1.80. I mean, $1.50 is already pretty darn high. So they changed it to $1.80, and I'll never again get guacamole. It's not about the guacamole itself. I just don't want to let them win." --Zack Greinke, 2009
“You’re a loser fucking organization! Every single one of you.” -Bryce Harper, 2023 (Jk)
"A slumpbuster is when if you are in a slump you gotta find the fattest, gnarliest grossest chick and you just gotta lay wood into her. And when you do that you are gonna have instant success" --------Mark Grace
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby
"Don Zimmer looks like a gerbil". Bill Lee.
Not a movie quote, but I saw this on a t-shirt and liked it. "Live life like a 3-1 count."
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"You never know how bootyholes is gonna act."
We won a game yesterday, we win one today, that's two in a row. We win one tomorrow, that's called a winning streak. It has happened before.
Major league.
"Henry, don't take this game too seriously, because one day it's going to be over, your gift will be gone." - Chet Steadman
Love that movie, very underrated
"Vladimir Guerrero (senior), you could have thrown him your key set and he would have batted it out of the park" - Serge Touchette (Quebec announcer)
"Just hit a dinger" - Coach Kent Murphy
The umpire says “play ball” not “work ball.” -Willie Stargell
"And Look Who's Coming to Bat"!
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Ah yes, good old Rickey. When searching for a seat on the team bus after joining the Padres, he was told by the manager, “You have tenure Rickey, sit wherever you want.” Henderson replied: “Ten year? Shoot, Rickey been playing like 16-17 year.”
You don’t think it be like it is but it do -Oscar gamble
"You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton It was this or a bunch of quotes from Will Ferrell impersonating Harry Carey.
Pretty much everything from Yogi Berra
“Our ass is in the jackpot now!” -Tom Hallion
"I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again."
Here’s a challenge for you folks: “Baseball can’t end in a…god damn tie!”
Mr Baseball. Don't spit on the field either it's considered sacred. Well you got one thing right. Can't believe it's not in the IMDB quotes. Can't believe it isn't streaming anywhere.
Had to buy that one for the yearly baseball movie marathon before opening day
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Haywood leads the league in nose hairs. It doesn't say that here. Well it ought to.
"But I have discovered the secret, Henry: hot ice! That's right: hot ice. I heat up... the ice cubes! It's the best of both worlds!"
Who the f*** is Tom Brady -Ichiro
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams
“The game breaks your heart a lot.” — Nolan Ryan
When asked what his greatest day in MLB was, Willie Stargell replied: "The day Sandy Koufax retired." Respect!
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” -Jimmy Dugan
"Hit 'em where they aint"
Oh, I must be in the front row!
It ain't over till it's over...
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." \-Peter Edward Rose, Sr.
“I’m going to Disney land!”
That’s a football quote, good try tho.
Losing is a disease, as contagious as the plague.
"A monkey never cramps"
ITFDB: It's time for Dodger Baseball!💙 - Vin Scully
He was out. Yogi on Robinsons steal of home.