Baseballisms

“The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play”

- Reggie Jackson

“You observe a lot by watching.”

- Yogi Berra

“I knew June was Pedro [Guerrero]’s favorite month, so I told him that in the U.S., June had sixty days. I’d see him in July and say, ‘Well, Pedro, it’s June 52 and I see you’re still hot.’”

- Tommy Lasorda

“I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I’d make one a week, and finally, I’d pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.”

- Lou Gehrig

“You can’t 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 man his chance.  That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.”

- Earl Weaver