quotes – Archived Innings

Quote of the day

May 26, 2023

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

~Jackie Robinson

Quote of the day

May 18, 2023

I’ve only kept one award in my whole life, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It’s awesome.

~Zack Greinke

Quote of the day

May 11, 2023

I keep telling myself, don’t get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

~Vida Blue

There were times I went to spring training as a non-roster player and I was the 28th or 29th on the depth chart. But I felt strongly that if I went there and showed what I could do, I’d come out on the top 25 and the roster.

~Billy Ripken

Quote of the day

April 24, 2023

Baseball is a game of the soul.

~Pedro Martinez

Quote of the day

April 13, 2023

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy – and a little more patient.

~Bo Jackson

Quote of the day

April 4, 2023

The Dodgers are such a team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they’d find it.

~Vin Scully

Quote of the day

March 29, 2023

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, ‘Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.’

~Jim Leyland

Quote of the day

March 20, 2023

This is pretty much a postseason atmosphere, and we’re getting it right in the middle of Spring Training. It’s a great team over there, and it almost makes me kind of want to go play in winter ball a little bit and see how rowdy these fans get. It looks really fun, and I was glad to be a part of it.

~Trea Turner, on the experience of playing in the World Baseball Classic