Baseball Quote of the Day - Search Page

Search or find what you thought you lost

56 quotes found searching on Location: Detroit

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. A carnival without kewpie dolls. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell
Detroit Tigers
Hall of Fame Broadcaster

That's perfect for a GM, a baby to be named later.

Commenting on Tigers GM Randy Smith being late returning from an out-of-town meeting to be with his wife in time for the birth of their second child and waiting until the next day before naming their son Shane

Steve Lubratich
Detroit Tigers
Assistant General Manager

In our day, he'd get knocked down. Whether it was (Babe) Ruth or anyone else swinging the bat good, we had a saying: "Let's see how he can hit lying on his back."

Telling the New York Daily News how pitchers of his era would approach Giants slugger Barry Bonds

In 2002 at the age of 92
Elden LeRoy Auker
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Submarine", "Big Six"

You start and end any discussion of catchers with Jim Hegan. Of all things a catcher has to do -- catch, throw, call a game -- Hegan was the best I ever saw.

On fellow American Leaguer and eventual Indians teammate Jim Hegan

George "Birdie" Tebbetts
Detroit Tigers
Catcher

Things have been bad enough; that's like pouring more fire on the gasoline.

When asked whether he was concerned the Detroit Tigers might lose more games than the 1962 Mets

August, 2003

George Lee "Sparky" Anderson
Detroit Tigers
Manager
HOF 2000

Stee-rike three called, and he stood there like a house by the side of the road and watched it go by.

Broadcasting a strikeout with the batter looking

William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell
Detroit Tigers
Hall of Fame Broadcaster

I enjoyed the challenge of hitting. I wanted to see what the Hall of Famers were like. Who knows? If I got a hit or two off them, maybe I was as good as they were. I never accepted failure. You have to believe you can hit anyone, and I did. I can hit anybody out there at certain times, if you give me enough shots. And that's the way you have to believe. Guys like McLain and Lolich and Gibson felt the same about hitters: 'I can get anyone out.' They have the same positive attitude. It's a challenge. That's what makes the game so much fun. I enjoyed the challenge every day.

In a 2003 interview
James Thomas "Jim" Northrup
Detroit Tigers
OF

If he'd ever been sawed in half, I think three-fourths of the Yankee Stadium concessions would have been found inside of him.

Talking about Babe Ruth

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939

Those were the best pitches I ever heard.

On being struck out by fireballer Nolan Ryan

Mitchell Jack "Mickey" Stanley
Detroit Tigers
Outfield

I can take a tool belt full of whatever and give it to some of the best pitchers in the game, and they're not going to do the things I did in the postseason. I did nothing different than any other pitcher. I don't feel bad about anything. I'm proud of my achievements and I don't have any regrets. (Pitchers) are totally different than they were ten years ago, or even five years ago. Baseball can say all it wants, but today's baseballs are as hard as rocks. Players are going to make an adjustment so that they can compete.

Laughing at those who believe foreign substances helped him in pitching his team to the 2006 World Series, with specific reference to Game 2 of the Series in which his throwing hand had a brownish smudge in the first inning (it was a shutout and the Tigers' only victory in the series)

February, 2007
Kenneth Scott "Kenny (the Gambler)" Rogers
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher

previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next

Search for quotes here! You can put in multiple words, or if you want to search on a particular phrase, "wrap it in quotes".

Home Plate

If you have any suggestions or any favorite baseball quotes please drop us a note at quotes@webcircle.com