Third Baseman Quotes

#1. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Mariano Rivera

#2. I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

Russell Wilson

#3. Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

#4. I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Peter Scolari

#5. Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

John R. Erickson

#6. The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

Chuck Jones

#7. The Gotham boys have a first baseman, Louis Gehrig, who is called the 'Babe Ruth' of the high schools," wrote the Chicago Tribune.

Jonathan Eig

#8. Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Jackie Robinson

#9. How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

Bob Uecker

#11. I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Brooks Robinson

#12. It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

David Blunkett

#13. I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

Todd English

#14. Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

Bert Blyleven

#15. I can't help it if you drive me crazy."
"In bed or out of it?

Brynn Kelly

#16. (Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.

Steve Carlton

#17. The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas.

Tim Kurkjian

#18. I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

Bob Sheppard

#19. 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

Joe Lieberman

#20. God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Leo Durocher

#21. I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

Eddie Mathews

#22. George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

Robert Kroetsch

#23. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

Pat Gillick

#24. Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: "Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you yell at somebody who can answer back?

Eric Metaxas

#25. The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Ty Cobb

#26. What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

Nellie Fox

#27. Chipper Jones will be in the Hall of Fame. The #1 overall pick in the 1990 draft, Chipper will be remembered as the greatest switch-hitting third baseman in baseball history.

Tucker Elliot

#28. When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Keegan Bradley

#29. As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

Derrek Lee

#30. There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.

Tom Glavine