Max Scherzer Quotes

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

Not a moment longer!

The clock is running down on the Republicans. They’ve only got seven more months to investigate me.

Our time is short and history is watching.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

Time is not a friend.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.