"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
"When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'" - Willie Stargell, 1981
"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back." - Woody Allen
"A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves." - Brendan Francis
"There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare." - Tallulah Bankhead
"Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot." - Dick Gregory
"What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs." - Harry Caray
"Confucius say: Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." - Author Unknown
"With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions." - Pete Rose, 1977
"Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?" - Vin Scully
"Cricket is baseball on valium." - Robin Williams
"Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor." - Abe Lemons
"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing." - Dizzy Dean
"I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally." - Rich Donnelly, minor league manager
"Let no one accuse baseball of not being tough on drugs. During his baseball career, Steve Howe was given 7 lifetime suspensions." - Bill Ferraro, baseball fan.
"I could never play in New York. The first time I came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles
"On his own scouting report: "Very deceptive. Slower than he looks." - Joe Garagiola
"A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, 'Should I spike myself?'" - Lefty Gomez
"Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist." - Hank Greenwald, on Bruce Sutter