"The average age of our bench is deceased." -Tommy Lasorda
"The trick is growing up without growing old." -Casey Stengel
"In the seventh inning, the fans get up and sing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' and you're already there. It's a really stupid thing to say." -Larry Anderson
"I'm not sure what it means, but when the ball is not in play, somebody grabs his crotch." -Paula Bouton
"Baseball players are the weirdest of all. I think it's all that organ music." -Peter Gent
"Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection." -Red Smith
"Baseball is dull only to those with dull minds." -Red Smith
"The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow." -Manny Trillo
"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark full of people." -Bill Veeck
"There have been only two geniuses in the world- Willie Mays and William Shakespeare." -Tallulah Bankhead
"Brooks never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him. In Baltimore, people name their children after him." -Gordon Beard, on Brooks Robinson
"Babe Ruth wasn't born. The son of a bitch fell from a tree." -Joe Dugan
"My hope for Nolan Ryan after he hangs up his spikes is to go to Harvard Med School. Not to study-to be studied." -Blackie Sherrod
"It's like Christmas, except it's warmer." -Pete Rose
"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." -Leo Durocher
"I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let it go I was scared to death." -Lefty Gomez
"Spring training should last one day. We'd have the team golf outing and head north." -John Kruk
"That's the true harbinger of spring- not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistran but the sound of a bat on a ball." -Bill Veeck
"I never tried to outsmart nobody; it was easier to outdummy them." -Dizzy Dean
"If you think long, you think wrong." -Jim Kaat
"I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: they hope it's my last." -Al Foreman
"When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets." -Doug Harvey
"A bad call in baseball is one that goes against you." -Danny Murtaugh
"You can't just sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other team a chance." -Earl Weaver
"I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded." -Earl Weaver, after Pat Kelly told Weaver to "walk with the Lord"
"He's about 3'1". I tell him to get his nose off my kneecap." -Ron Luciano, on Earl Weaver
"Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter, once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well, Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned." -Gene Autry
"Win any way you can as long as can get away with it." -Leo Durocher
"Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate." -Ken Landreaux
"If you don't play to win, why keep score?" -Vern Law
"Root only for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed." -Tug McGraw
"You can't think and hit at the same time."
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
"The other team could make trouble for us if they win."
"It's deja vu all over again!" (said after Mantle and Maris went back-to-back...again.)
"If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"
"Slump? I ain't in no slump...I just ain't hitting."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4."
"It gets late early out there." (left field at Yankee Stadium)
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't go to yours."
"Pair up in threes."
"Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken." (in a telegram to Johnny Bench after Johnny broke Yogi's record for most home runs by a catcher.)
"You can observe a lot by watching."
"The future ain't what it used to be."
"It ain't over 'til it's over!"