There are other sports (well one other… hockey) that I enjoy more than baseball, but the one area where baseball enjoys a clear superiority in is excellent quotes. Here are some of my favorites:
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
Phillies manager Danny Ozark.
“He ain’t no rocket surgeon.”
Unnamed Montreal Expo, evaluating a teammate.
“Pain don’t hurt.”
Manager Sparky Anderson.
“There’s one word that describes baseball – 'You never know.”
Joquin Andujar
“You mix two jiggers of scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I’ve lost five pounds and my driver’s license.”
Rocky Bridges, on his new diet drink
“I’ve seen the future and it’s much like the present only longer.”
Dan Quisenberry
“How can a guy hit and think at the same time?”
Yogi Berra
“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded man. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest.”
Ty Cobb
“(Van) Mungo and I get along fine. I just tell him I won’t stand for no nonsense, and then I duck.”
Casey Stengel