Home Plate Quotes:

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

- Rogers Hornsby

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Kids, Littles, Best Baseball, Autographs

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

- George Brett

topic: Baseball, Running, Looks, Greyhounds, Home Plate

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

- James Anthony Froude

source: "Short studies on great subjects".

topic: Loneliness, Leave Me Alone, World, Home Plate

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

- Jimmy Piersall

topic: Baseball, Baby, Rain, Cute Fathers Day, Funny Fathers Day

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

- Adrian Beltre

topic: Home, Plates, Feels, Home Plate

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Sports, Baseball, Moving, Ball Players, Baseball Pitching

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

- O. Henry

topic: Baseball, Running, Moving, Away We Go, Home Plate

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

- Mordecai Richler

topic: Home Plate

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

- Peter Guber

topic: Home, Winning, Player, Shared Experiences, Ball Players

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

- Billy Graham

topic: Home, Heart, World, Home Plate

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Brother, Home, Weekend, Home Plate

The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

- Roger Angell

source: Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

topic: Minions, Catwalk, Wrigley Field, Ramp, Rafters

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

- Harmon Killebrew

topic: Home, Hands, Balls, Home Plate

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

- Rickey Henderson

topic: Moving, Home, Guy, Home Plate

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

- Brock Yates

topic: Wall, Communication, Home, Off The Wall, Home Plate

To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

- Roy Campanella

topic: Running, Home, Kissing, Home Plate, Hopping

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

- Bill Klem

topic: Home, Umpires, Feet, Home Plate

It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

- Mario Cuomo

topic: Summer, Baseball, Memories, Sweat And Tears, Home Plate

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

- Red Smith

topic: Baseball, Home, Men, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

- Warren Spahn

topic: Home, Two, Half, Home Plate