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Quiz about Famous Quotes From Baseball
Quiz about Famous Quotes From Baseball

Famous Quotes From Baseball Trivia Quiz


One of the great things about baseball is that there is plenty of time between pitches to think of clever things to say. Here are a few quotes from players, managers, owners, writers and various other hangers on.

A multiple-choice quiz by tim10001. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
tim10001
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
528
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
14 / 25
Plays
11394
Awards
Editor's Choice
Last 3 plays: Guest 73 (19/25), Guest 72 (18/25), dee1304 (11/25).
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Question 1 of 25
1. 'Baseball is, I think, the greatest game in the world'. Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. 'I keep my eyes clear, and I hit 'em where they ain't'. Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. 'Nice guys finish last'. Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. 'Let's play two'. Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. 'When you play this game for 20 years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand'. Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. 'I'm the straw that stirs the drink'. Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. 'It breaks your heart. It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone'. Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. On hitting against Sandy Koufax, 'Trying to hit him is like trying to drink coffee with a fork'. Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. 'There's a deep fly ball...Winfield goes back...back...his head hits the wall...and it rolls off...and it's rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres'! Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. 'I've seen the future and it's much like the present, only longer'. Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. 'There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of 'em'. Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. 'Well, how about that'! Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. 'Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing'. Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. 'A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives' Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. 'I see great things in baseball. It's our game- the American game. It will take people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dispeptic set, repair these losses, and be a blessing to us'. Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. 'If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself' Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. 'People ask me how I'd like to be remembered. I tell them I'd like to be remembered as the guy who hit the line drive, over Bobby Richardson's head.' Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. 'Ya gotta believe'! Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. 'Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you'. Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. 'Anybody with ability can play in the major leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat'. Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. 'I've never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game'. Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. 'Holy Cow'!

Answer: (Two Words, Chicago and New York fans should have no problem with this. Watch your spelling!)
Question 23 of 25
23. When asked about the Cubs inability to win a World Series since 1908 or a Pennant since 1945, this person responded, 'Any team can have a bad century'. ? Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. 'It ain't over 'til it's over'. Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. 'The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past Ray. It reminds us of all that was once good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come'. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. 'Baseball is, I think, the greatest game in the world'.

Answer: Babe Ruth

This is an excerpt from the speech Ruth gave on the occasion of his final farewell to the fans at Yankee Stadium on June 14, 1948. His voice was raspy and weak from the throat cancer that was killing him. This was one of the most poignant and memorable moments in baseball history. He died two months later at the age of 53.
2. 'I keep my eyes clear, and I hit 'em where they ain't'.

Answer: Wee Willie Keeler

Keeler was the archetypical punch and judy hitter. He stood only 5 foot four and a half inches tall and weighed only about 140 pounds and he used the smallest bat in big league history, a 29oz 30' matchstick, but he sure got the job done. He was a career .341 hitter, and was one of the first 12 men to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in when it opened in 1939.

He batted safely in the first 44 games of the 1897 season, a record that wasn't surpassed until Joe DiMaggio had his celebrated streak of 56 in 1941. Keeler still shares the National League consecutive games hit record with Pete Rose. Rose tied his mark in 1978.
3. 'Nice guys finish last'.

Answer: Leo Durocher

'Leo the Lip' was a major league player from 1925 to 1945, and a manager or coach from 1939 to 1973. He was famous for his 'win at all costs' style both on and off the field. He would do or say anything if he thought it would help win a ballgame. He was a member of the famous 1930's St. Louis 'Gas House Gang' teams, as a matter of fact, he coined the phrase.

He was also the manager of the Dodgers when Branch Rickey decided to break baseball's color line by promoting Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947. Durocher was completely behind the integration of baseball, being eager to do anything he could to improve his team.
4. 'Let's play two'.

Answer: Ernie Banks

'Mr. Cub' was always ready to play, even if his teammates weren't. Banks was voted National League MVP in 1958 and 1959, both years the Cubs finished fifth in an eight team league.
5. 'When you play this game for 20 years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand'.

Answer: Pete Rose

Pete will be in the Hall someday. I just hope it happens before he checks out.
6. 'I'm the straw that stirs the drink'.

Answer: Reggie Jackson

'Mr. October' never had a problem with his self image. He was always supremely self confident, and was always willing to talk about it with anyone who would listen.
7. 'It breaks your heart. It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone'.

Answer: A. Bartlett Giamatti

This is an excerpt from Giamatti's 'Green Fields Of the Mind'. Rose and Giamatti . Giamatti and Rose. The two names will dance tragically together forever in baseball purgatory. Two men who loved the game, each in their own way, one dead before his time, one banned for life. Euripedes never wrote a sadder tale.
8. On hitting against Sandy Koufax, 'Trying to hit him is like trying to drink coffee with a fork'.

Answer: Willie Stargell

Hitting against Koufax gave a lot of major leaguers the willies!
9. 'There's a deep fly ball...Winfield goes back...back...his head hits the wall...and it rolls off...and it's rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres'!

Answer: Jerry Coleman

Coleman has been an announcer for San Diego since 1972, except for 1980-1981 when he served as the team's manager. He is well known for his malaprops in the broadcast booth. Here's a couple of other goofs. ' McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back'. '...And he slides into second base with a stand-up double'. ' Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen'. 'Ozzie Smith just made a play that I've never seen before. And he does that more often than anyone else'.
10. 'I've seen the future and it's much like the present, only longer'.

Answer: Dan Quisenberry

'Quiz' was quite a guy, he threw more junk than Fred Sanford and he was a world class smart alec to boot!
11. 'There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of 'em'.

Answer: Casey Stengel

The 'Ol Perfessor' had his ups and downs in the game, but he was never at a loss for words. The all-time undisputed champion of double talk.
12. 'Well, how about that'!

Answer: Mel Allen

This phrase was Allen's trademark for over fifty years.
13. 'Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing'.

Answer: Warren Spahn

Spahn holds the record for most wins by a lefthanded pitcher with 363. He won 20 or more games 13 times during his 23 year career. Spahn played for Casey Stengel on the 1942 Braves and the 1965 Mets, both really sorry teams, prompting him to once say, 'I played for Stengel both before and after he was a genius'.
14. 'A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives'

Answer: Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson had a very important life.
15. 'I see great things in baseball. It's our game- the American game. It will take people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dispeptic set, repair these losses, and be a blessing to us'.

Answer: Walt Whitman

Whitman loved all things American, especially baseball.
16. 'If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself'

Answer: Mickey Mantle

Mantle was one of the most talented and charismatic players to ever lace up pair of spikes, but his career was cut short by injury and self abuse. At the end of his life, he had the courage to hold himself out as an example of how not to live one's life, in the hope that it would help young people.
17. 'People ask me how I'd like to be remembered. I tell them I'd like to be remembered as the guy who hit the line drive, over Bobby Richardson's head.'

Answer: Willie McCovey

McCovey was recalling making the final out in game seven of the 1962 World Series. This was immortalized by a series of 'Peanuts' cartoons by Charles M. Schulz. Here's how they went. Panel one: Linus and Charlie Brown and sitting on a curb looking dejected. Panel Two: Still sitting there , not saying anything. Panel Three: No change, still looking glum. Panel four: Charlie Brown looks up and as if talking to God, yells,'Why couldn't have McCovey hit the ball just three feet higher'? Next day, same strip except this time he yells, 'Why couldn't have McCovey hit the ball just TWO feet higher'? And so on...Finally, in the last strip Linus gets up without speaking and walks away, leaving Charlie Brown sitting alone on the curb, with his head in his hands.
18. 'Ya gotta believe'!

Answer: Tug McGraw

McGraw coined this phrase, the battle cry of the 1973 Mets. How it came about was this. The Mets were really awful in early 1973, so bad that team board chairman M. Donald Grant took it upon himself to go to the clubhouse and deliver a little pep talk to the players.

He told the Mets that if only they believed they would win, they would. So McGraw goes berserk, jumps up and starts grabbing his teammates, yellin at the top of his lungs, 'He's right!... He's right!... Just Believe!... Ya gotta Believe'! He repeated the phrase over and over.

Some of those present, including Grant, thought that the exuberant McGraw was mocking the big boss. Regardless of whether or not Tug was sincere in his outburst, the phrase caught on and became the Mets mantra as they went from last place on August 30 to the National League Pennant.
19. 'Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you'.

Answer: Satchel Paige

Paige was the most famous pitcher to come to the majors from the negro leagues. He was over forty when he made his ML debut with the Indians in 1948. He pitched his last game in the bigs in 1965 at the age of 58.
20. 'Anybody with ability can play in the major leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat'.

Answer: Bob Uecker

'Mr. Baseball' hung around as a player for seven years in the National League, filling bench space for Milwaukee, St. Louis, Philadelphia , and Atlanta. During this time he compiled a whopping 146 hits, had zero stolen bases, and hit exactly .200. Why it's called the Mendoza line, I'll never know. It should be called the Uecker line.
21. 'I've never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game'.

Answer: Connie Mack

Mack played for ten years in the majors and managed the Philadelphia Athletics for 53. Mack also owned the A's, so he held the manager' job as long as he wanted it. He finally gave up managing at the age of 87. He was old school all the way, he always wore a suit and tie in the dugout.Oh, yeah. His real name was Cornelius McGillicuddy
22. 'Holy Cow'!

Answer: Harry Caray

I figured I had to have one fill in the blank question, and if this isn't a gimme, I don't know what is! Harry and Phil both used this phrase liberally in the broadcast booth.
23. When asked about the Cubs inability to win a World Series since 1908 or a Pennant since 1945, this person responded, 'Any team can have a bad century'. ?

Answer: Tom Treblehorn

It's a new century, Cubs fans. Things have gotta change.
24. 'It ain't over 'til it's over'.

Answer: Yogi Berra

Yogi learned his craft at the knee of the master, Casey Stengel. He's always been humble about his fame. He once said, ' I never said most of the things I said'.
25. 'The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past Ray. It reminds us of all that was once good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come'.

Answer: James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in 'Field of Dreams'

Get a ticket and go see a baseball game. You'll be glad you did.
Source: Author tim10001

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