Diamond Quotes

“A club, to be a winner, should have a corking good catcher, a star at either short or second, and one in center field. Give a team three such men in those positions and it is bound to be successful.”
fielder jones

“Ballplayers are born. If they are cut out for baseball, if they have the desire and the ambition, they will make it. That’s all there is to it.”
walter johnson

“Ballplayers are generally intelligent people, and it is pretty safe to trust their welfare in their own hands. The player who fails to take care of himself is always the heaviest sufferer, and if he hasn’t got interest enough in his own affairs to do this, it is doubtful if the manager can compel him to.”
napoleon lajoie

“The pitcher is happiest with his arm idle. He prefers to dawdle in the present, knowing that as soon as he gets on the mound and starts his windup, he delivers himself to the uncertainty of the future.”
george plimpton

“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”
tom boswell

“I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.”
bill veeck

“If we win it, it’s because we’re a veteran team. If we lose it, it’s because we’re too old.”
mike schmidt

“One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.”
lance berkman

“If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.”
ted williams