Joe Garagiola Quotes

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

One of the things you do in a baseball game is scream at the umpire in the hope that the next call will go your way.

I love second base.

Fielding has always come naturally to me and I've always enjoyed it. While keeping, you're just standing in one place and I've done it so many times so I've enjoyed fielding and that's why I enjoy playing as a batsman.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.