20 Great Quotes From...Baseball: Part Two

Barney Corkhill continues his new series here on Bleacher Report in which he looks at some of the best quotes from various sports. Today he presents another 20 from Baseball, and don't worry, in the coming days there will be a few more Baseball quote articles in this series! Click here to see the first 20 Great Quotes.

The quotes aren't just from players, coaches and commentators, but anyone who has ever said a good quote to do with the chosen sport! Some are intentional, some aren't, you can decide for yourselves!

So, without further ado, lets look at the next 20 great quotes from Baseball!

"Bruce Sutter has been around for a while, and he's pretty old. He's 35 years old. That will give you an idea of how old he is" - Ron Fairly

"I watch a lot of Baseball on the radio" - Gerald Ford

"I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: they hope it's my last" - Ex-umpire Al Forman

"A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves" - Brendan Francis

"I don't put any foreign substances on the baseball. Everything I use is from the good old USA" - George Frazier

"I can see the sun OK, and that's 93 million miles away" - Umpire Bruce Froemming, after having his eyesight questioned

"They shouldn't throw that at me. I'm the father of five or six kids" - Tito Fuentes

"Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun" - Joe Garagiola

"Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve-ball straightened out" - Joe Garagiola

" I'm throwing twice as hard as I ever did. It's just not getting there as fast" - Lefty Gomez

"When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew exactly what it was. That was a home run hit off me in 1937 by Jimmy Foxx - Lefty Gomez

"I'm a four-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife" - Mike Greenwell

"Sometimes they [journalists] write what I say and not what I mean" - Pedro Guerrero

"If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California" - Argus Hamilton

"Crowd? This isn't a crowd. It's a focus group!" - Fran Healy disappointed by the poor attendance at a game in Montreal

"I wish I could play Little League now. I'd be way better than before" - Mitch Hedberg

"Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball" - Woodie Held

"All I'm asking for is what I want" - Rickey Henderson

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. - Rogers Hornsby

"I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow" - Jeff Jarvis

There you have your first 20 great Baseball quotes! Be sure to come tomorrow to look for the next set of great Baseball quotes!

Very soon there will also be a special edition dedicated solely to Yogi Berra!

Other great quotes from this series:

Twenty Great Baseball Quotes: Part One

Twenty Great Baseball Quotes: Part Three

Twenty Great Baseball Quotes: Part Four

Twenty Great Baseball Quotes: Part Five