Quotes About Spring Training

#1. The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Zinsser

#2. The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

Eric Davis

#3. Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.

Torii Hunter

#4. This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Brooks Robinson

#5. In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.

Ryne Sandberg

#6. None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

Pedro Martinez

#7. These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

Dave Winfield

#8. I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals ... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

Jim Palmer

#9. It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.

Chili Davis

#10. I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Steve Earle

#11. I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

Gary Carter

#12. I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

Barry Bonds

#13. In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.

Hee-seop Choi

#14. If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Cory Lidle

#15. Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

Jerry Izenberg

#16. I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work.

Albert Pujols

#17. I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

Danny Bautista

#18. For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

Bobby Bonilla

#19. I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.

Derek Jeter

#20. I feel as good now as I have any other spring training,

Roy Halladay

#21. You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Bud Selig

#22. Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Joe Torre

#23. The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

Jim Evans

#24. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

Yogi Berra

#25. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

#26. What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as you can before you go to spring training. Once you get there, you taper down and it's just a maintenance program for the next six or seven months.

Josh Beckett

#27. It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

Mark Teixeira

#28. The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

Kevin Millar

#29. Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

Don Mattingly

#30. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Sandy Koufax

#31. I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

Jamie Moyer

#32. Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Curt Schilling

#33. A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

#34. It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

Harry Caray

#35. I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

Jamie Moyer

#36. I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

Vladimir Guerrero

#37. Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

Leon Day

#38. I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

Rickey Henderson

#39. I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

Pee Wee Reese

#40. When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

Shane Larkin

#41. You don't spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Julia Child