Diamond Quotes

"The secret of my success was clean living and a fast-moving outfield."
LEFTY GOMEZ

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
WARREN SPAHN

"I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly."
BOWIE KUHN

"You hear players say, 'You never played the game.' My comeback is, 'Hey, pal, you never paid your way in.'"
NORM HITZGES

"Hitting is better than sex."
REGGIE JACKSON

"The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love."
BRYANT GUMBEL

"National League owners are 100 percent for progress and 100 percent against change."
EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS

"They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right."
TONY LAZZERI

"Without Ernie Banks the Cubs would finish in Albuquerque."
JIMMY DYKES

"Baseball is made up of very few big and dramatic moments, but rather it's a beautifully put together pattern of countless little subtleties that finally add up to the big moment, and you have to be well versed in the game to truly appreciate them."
PAUL RICHARDS

"The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow."
MANNY TRILLO

"Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you've got to hit the ball square."
JOE SCHULTZ