Baseball quotes

[drunk] So, Hiroshi "Kamikaze" Tanaka, recently of the Tokyo Giants, knocks himself cold for the second time this week. Maybe in Japan, that's actually better than catching the ball. Personally, I think he's just trying to get out of the lineup.
Bob Uecker - Harry Doyle

“People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!”

Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher

“Everybody's got their own way of letting off steam, Ring. It's what you do on the field that counts.”
Bill Irwin - Eddie Collins

“We're the best team in baseball, right now, right this minute, because of you. You're the reason. We're not gonna screw that up, we're gonna be awesome for you right now. Just throw.”

John C. Reilly - Gus Sinski

“- Martin Riggs: I think it's time for the seventh inning stretch. That's a baseball expression.
- Rika Van Den Haas: I know. But we're only up to the fourth inning.
- Martin Riggs: Batter up!”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Patsy Kensit - Rika Van Den Haas

“Regardless of the verdict of juries... no player who throws a ball game... no player who undertakes, or promises to throw a game... no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it... will never play...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Anderson - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

“You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.”

Brad Pitt - Billy Beane

- Hired Killer: You're gonna lose tomorrow.
- Claude "Lefty" Williams: Oh, is that so?
- Hired Killer: I know it for a fact. That your wife?
- Claude "Lefty" Williams: Yeah, what's it to you?
- Hired Killer: You don't lose tomorrow, she dies.
Danton Stone - Hired Killer
James Read - Claude "Lefty" Williams

“- Bobby Rayburn: There's more to life than just baseball.
- Gil Renard: Like what? Like your house? Like your big ass car? Like your 40 fucking' million? I mean, what the fuck do you care about?
- Bobby Rayburn: I care about my son. That's what I care about.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn
Robert De Niro - Gil Renard

“The fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you. When you're not, they'd just as soon spit on you as look at you.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Gil Renard: Can I just say something? Did you ever think how one man who's doing well... might throw off the rest of the team? What I'm saying is, like, you have to think what's best for the team, right? You might have to lay down a sacrifice. I'm talking about Bobby Rayburn's number. I don't know if you really understand how much he needs...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Benicio del Toro - Juan Primo

“Baseball may be a religion full of magic, cosmic truth, and the fundamental ontological riddles of our time, but it's also a job.”
Susan Sarandon - Annie Savoy

“I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.”
Kurt Russell

“There are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us.”

Brad Pitt - Billy Beane

“You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks.”
Benicio del Toro - Javier Rodriguez

“Most of us, we bang around the game for a while, then we are forgotten. Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, DiMaggio, those guys were bigger than the game, and I know that is not what you want. But right now, whether you like it or not, you're bigger than the game. And this is your chance to go out there and show them what you're made of, and that you owe to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce McGill - Ralph Houk

“This game is not about one player. Believe me, I miss Downtown just as much as the rest of you. But baseball is about a team, an entire team, playing together. Yeah, look at me like I'm some damn corndog old man who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about!”
Scott Bakula - Gus Cantrell

“- Alfred Austrian: Their names may not sound familiar, but I'd say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.
- Buck Weaver: Who's the Babe Ruth?
- Alfred Austrian: That's me.”

Michael Laskin - Alfred Austrian
John Cusack - George "Buck" Weaver

“Definite that Baseball and Jack always come before Hiroko and Jack.”
Aya Takanashi - Hiroko Uchiyama

“We want a pitcher not an underwear snitcher!”
Thomas Ian Nicholas - Henry Rowengartner

“People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs.”

Jonah Hill - Peter Brand

“I love baseball. It's my destiny to play that game. And I don't really care about winning. Well, like, now i do, cause, like, we've lost every game and I've gotten tired of it! I'm working like so hard, all the balls are getting thrown to me, I'm trying to catch like everyone. All of the people in the out field are all looking around, and, c'mon...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew Josten - Michael "Goob" Yagoobian

“- Shoeless Joe Jackson: What's with the lights?
- Ray Kinsella: Oh, all the stadiums have them now. Even Wrigley Field.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: Makes it harder to see the ball.
- Ray Kinsella: Yeah, well, the owners found that more people can attend night games.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson: [shakes his head] Owners.”
Kevin Costner - Shoeless Joe Jackson
Ray Liotta - Ray Kinsella

“God... if You can hear me, please... send me one real baseball player. That's all I ask. And if you can't grant me that then... well... you might as well just strike me dead right here and now.”
Scott Bakula - Gus Cantrell

“- Annibal Ramirez: I nearly killed some little kid's father today. I don't know about anything anymore.
- Jack Shaw: He was a baseball dad! He deserved it!”
Aidan Quinn - Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez
Donald Sutherland - Jack Shaw