They Said It

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:17 am

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Tommy Lasorda

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:21 am

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:24 pm

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.

Arthur Daley

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:53 am

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:33 am

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
-- Ty Cobb

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:21 am

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:09 am

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

Wade Boggs

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:16 pm

Hideki Matsui, Yankee leftfielder, after hitting two homers in a game in August while batting after Alex Rodriguez: "There was no pressure in my at bat. Everybody was in the bathroom.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:03 am

Ron Artest, Sacramento kings forward, on Michael Vick: [He}lied and then came back and apologized to everyone. I felt that was classy."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:54 pm

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
-- Sandy Koufax

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:16 pm

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

Harry Caray

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:48 am

Mark Cuban,Mavericks owner, on how long it took him to get over Dallas' upset loss to the Warriers in the 2007 playoffs: "About three six-packs."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:38 pm

This is nothing. I've got nine writers standing here. McGwire had 200 writers when he had 30 home runs.

Barry Bonds

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:51 am

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.
--Lou Brock

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:51 am

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
-- Woody Allen

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:16 am

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:48 am

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:45 pm

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:10 pm

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
-- Larry Bird

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:02 am

My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.
-- Source Unknown