Joe Garagiola Quotes

When you're playing first base, you help the infielders a lot. They appreciate you when you pick their ball. It's fun to help that.

Catching is a tough position.

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

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

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.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

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

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

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.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

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

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

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

Baseball's what I do.