Baseball quotes
141 baseball quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: For Love of the Game
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
- From the movie: 42
“- Branch Rickey: We win if the world is convinced of two things: That you are a fine gentleman and a great baseball player. Like our Savior... you gotta have the guts... to turn the other cheek. Can you do it?
- Jackie Robinson: You give me a uniform... you give me a, heh, number on my back... and I'll give you the guts.” - From the movie: CB4
“Any person who would defile America's pastime by wearing a baseball cap backwards... well, that's an evil that speaks for itself!”
- From the movie: A League of Their Own
“- Jimmy Dugan: Sneaking out like this, quitting, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you can't deny that.
- Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard.
- Jimmy Dugan: It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great.” - From the movie: The Natural
- From the movie: Happy Gilmore
“- Chubbs: What are you doing?
- Happy Gilmore: 364 days until next year's hockey tryouts, I have to toughen up.” - From the movie: Rookie of the Year
“Pitcher's got a big butt! Pitcher's got a big butt!”
- From the movie: The Natural
“- Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
- Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.” - From the movie: Field of Dreams
“Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that been dust for over fifty years. That was me. I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet... the thrill of the grass.”
- From the movie: For Love of the Game
“And you know Steve you get the feeling that Billy Chapel isn't pitching against left handers, he isn't pitching against pinch hitters, he isn't pitching against the Yankees. He's pitching against time. He's pitching against the future, against age, and even when you think about his career, against ending. And tonight I think he might be able to...” (continue)(continue reading)
“If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.”
- From the movie: Rookie of the Year
- From the movie: Major League II
- From the movie: The Sandlot
“- Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez: Man, you think too much! I bet you get straight A's and shit!
- Scotty Smalls: No, I got a B once. Well, actually it was an A minus but it should have been a B.
- Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez: Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun. If you were having fun, you would have caught that ball!” - From the movie: Rookie of the Year
“Is that play legal?”
- From the movie: Little Big League
“- Mac Macnally: You're a frickin' primadonna, McGreavy. You don't deserve to wear that uniform.
- Mike McGrevey: You know, you're right, Mac. I'm a disgrace to the Twins. I think you should trade me.
- Mac Macnally: As soon as we find someone dumb enough to take you, that's exactly what we're gonna do.” - From the movie: Crossing Delancey
- From the movie: Major League
“- Willie Mays Hayes: What the hell league you been playing in?
- Rick Vaughn: California Penal...
- Willie Mays Hayes: Never heard of it. How'd you end up playing there?
- Rick Vaughn: Stole a car.” - From the movie: Eight Men Out
“You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it.”
- From the movie: Major League
“- Pedro Cerrano: Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come.
- Eddie Harris: You know you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.
- Roger Dorn:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Red Heat
“- Ivan Danko: I do not understand this sport.
- Art Ridzik: You're not supposed to, it's completely American.
- Ivan Danko: We play baseball now in Soviet Union.
- Art Ridzik: Are you kidding me? This is our national pastime!” - From the movie: Fences
“Rose'll tell you. When I first met her, she ask me if I had gotten all that foolishness out of my system. I said: Baby, it's you and baseball, all what count to me. You hear me, Bono? And I meant it, too. She said: Which one come first? I said: Well, ain't no doubt it's baseball. But you stick and get old with me, and we'll both outlive this...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Lean on Me
“They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!”
- From the movie: 42
“- Branch Rickey: You think God likes baseball, Herb?
- Herb Pennock: What? What the hell is that supposed to mean?
- Branch Rickey: It means someday you're gonna meet God, and when he inquires as to why you didn't take the field against Robinson in Philadelphia, and you answer that it's because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply!”
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