Diamond Quotes

"Some baseball is the fate of all of us."

Robert Frost

"The Big Trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few."

Rogers Hornsby

"If you want to survive in New York, you better only read the box scores."

Billy Martin

"Base-stealing has fallen into limbo and the thrills that go with it are no more. But it'll return, as surely as I'm writing these words."

Ty Cobb

"The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they'd find it."

Vin Scully

"Losing steaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end of the season, you're choking."

Gene Mauch

"I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball."

Richard Nixon

"I pitched 874 Major League games in twenty-two years, and I never had a sore arm until the day I quit. My arm went bad in 1912 when I was in spring training, and I guess it was about time."

Cy Young

"Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, my friend, there's no man alive who can throw harder than Joe Wood."

Walter Johnson

"Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and the spirit of the game."

Branch Rickey