Baseball quotes

“- Ron Thompson: Hey Szalinski, ever do anything normal? Like play baseball?
- Nick Szalinski: Nope. Baseball is for mortals.”
Jared Rushton - Ron Thompson
Robert Oliveri - Nick Szalinski

This excitement isn't just about the fun of baseball. It's not about the prize. It's about the gloating and rubbing their noses in it. The "Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah! We beat you!" taunting if you will, that comes with the winning.
Harry Shearer - Dog Announcer

“- George Knox: You're a jack-ass!
- Norton: No, I'm a pitcher.
- Whitt Bass: Well, you're a pitcher and a jack-ass.
- Jose Martinez: Sì, it's very common.”
Danny Glover - George Knox
Mark Cole - Norton
Neal McDonough - Whitt Bass
Israel Juarbe - Jose Martinez

“- Bump Bailey: I lost it in the sun.
- Pop Fisher: Blinding.”

Michael Madsen - Bump Bailey
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher

“- Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez: That's really nice of you, but that ball really is signed by Babe Ruth.
- Mr. Mertle: So is this one...with the rest of the 1927 Yankees.”

Mike Vitar - Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez
James Earl Jones - Mr. Mertle

“- Jack Elliot: Just let them have a little fun.
- Uchiyama: Baseball is work. Not fun.
- Jack Elliot: Baseball is grown men getting paid to play a game. When you were a kid, I bet you didn't pick up a bat and ball because you were dying to work. A player's career is short enough. Let them enjoy it.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“We're not athletes, we're baseball players!”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“I have something I think you all ought to know about. It seems that Mrs. Phelps doesn't think too highly of our worth. She put this team together because she thought we'd be bad enough to finish dead last, knocking attendance down to the point where she could move the team to Miami, and get rid of all of us for better personnel.”

James Gammon - Lou Brown

“- Bobby Rayburn: At least you're not one of those diehard, you know, baseball fans. You know, really.
- Gil Renard: Why's that?
- Bobby Rayburn: Because those guys are losers.
- Gil Renard: Aren't the fans what it's all about?”
Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn
Robert De Niro - Gil Renard

“Let's be real here, you know. What are we doin'? We're not curing cancer, you know? We're playin' a game. That's all it is. It's just a game. So I stopped caring and relaxed. Then I started hitting.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Little Boy: Avoid the clap, Jimmy Dugan.
- Jimmy Dugan: Hey, that's good advice!”

Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan

“- Frank Abagnale: You know why the Yankees always win, Frank?
- Frank Abagnale Jr.: 'Cause they have Mickey Mantle?
- Frank Abagnale: No, it's 'cause the other teams can't stop staring at those damn pinstripes.”
Christopher Walken - Frank Abagnale
Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Abagnale Jr.

“- Billy Chapel: I don't know if I have anything left.
- Gus Sinski: You just throw whatever you got, whatever's left.”
Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel
John C. Reilly - Gus Sinski

“Ya know Dorn, I liked you so much better when you were just a ballplayer. If you wanna be an interior decorator now that's none of my business. But some of us still need this team. Now you listen to me! This is my last shot at a winner and for some of the younger guys it could be their only shot. I don't know what happened to you. But if you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tom Berenger - Jake Taylor

“They don't understand that you're the same person when you're hitting or not. No. The only person you should play for is yourself.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“If only I was born Italian... all the best Yankees are Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup, what chance do I have?”

Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb

- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.
- Joseph 'Sport' Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find that hard to believe.
- Arnold "Chick" Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

Michael Rooker - Arnold "Chick" Gandil
Kevin Tighe - Joseph "Sport" Sullivan

“Sam Tuttle. I can't think of a better reason not to be a Yankee.”

Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel

- "Sleepy" Bill Burns: Eddie's gettin' too old for this. I know what it's like. You walk out there with your arm hangin.
- Billy Maharg: You couldn't pitch when you was young, Burnsie.
- "Sleepy" Bill Burns: Eddie's the key. If we don't get him, we can forget about it.

Chris Lloyd - "Sleepy" Bill Burns
Richard Edson - Billy Maharg

“Hey, your mom has a pretty good arm! I ain't seen the floater pitch since Scuffy McGee!”
Daniel Stern - Brickma

“- Sgt. Major Dickerson: [pointing to his rank insignia] What does three up and three down mean to you, airman?
- Adrian Cronauer: End of an inning?”
J. T. Walsh - Sgt. Major Dickerson
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“We call ourselves writers! All we do is sit around talking about baseball and getting drunk a lot. You call that writing?”

Robert Wuhl - Al Stump

“This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”

Tim Robbins - Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh

Ok, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it's called "two in a row". And if we win again tomorrow, it's called a "winning streak"... It has happened before.
James Gammon - Lou Brown