Best Shortstops Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.”

People Way Heart Talking Player Skills Angel Former League Not Talking Shortstops

Author:Bengie Molina

“I guess heaven needed a shortstop.”

Heaven Needed Yankees New York Yankees Shortstops

Author:George Steinbrenner

“He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.”

People Should Wells Play Might Wish Should Have Baseball Thirds Train Rays Brooks Nettles Shortstops

Author:Monte Irvin

“The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.”

Running Moving Athlete Covering Relays Shortstops

Author:Lou Boudreau

“Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.”

Knowing Percent Thrown Anticipation Shortstops

Author:Lou Boudreau

“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Example Politician Should Have Ceo Should Have Been Shortstops Cal Ripken

Author:Don Yaeger

“Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.”

Ifs Way Different Guy Team Style Handle Pencils Different Styles Shortstops Different Guys

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“I just wanted to be like my dad, Jesus. He was a good shortstop.”

Wanted Jesus Dad My Dad Shortstops

Author:Johan Santana

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

Fine Baseball Fortunate Requirements Shortstops

Author:Nellie Fox

“I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!”

Play Wanted Shortstops

Author:Jim Abbott

“If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.”

Ifs Balls Responsible Errors Shortstops

Author:Pedro Martinez

“If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.”

Ifs Way Winning Gold Awards Hitting Bats Gloves Shortstops

Author:Jimmy Rollins

“I feel a lot more comfortable at shortstop, but it's no problem, I'll move to make room.”

Feels Problem Moving Rooms Comfortable No Problem Shortstops

Author:Jose Reyes

“Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.”

Wells Littles Made Play Running Guy Bits Term Little Bit Productive Shortstops

Author:Chase Utley

“Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.”

Hard Dozen Dimes Stockbrokers Shortstops

Author:Charlie Finley

“All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.”

Needs Wells Left Right Now Balls Analysis Left Handed Shortstops

Author:Casey Stengel

“I can't do anything about how people who are all but completely unaware of my actual motivations and my actual thought process and my actual worldview, how they characterize me. There's not much I can do about it, except never say another word other than 'there's a ground ball to shortstop.' And I don't think that's going to happen.”

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Author:Bob Costas

“There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Position Acquire Inventory Catchers Shortstops

Author:Kevin Towers

“I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.”

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Author:Bo Jackson

“I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.”

Firsts Book Lasts Games Pay Attention Fields Position Duty Fool Lovers Baseball Pay Attention Acknowledge Requirements Solemn Catchers Firsts And Lasts Shortstops

Book:Summerland

Source: Summerland

“I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.”

Firsts Wells Kids Bats Softball Lefties Shortstops

Author:Josh Charles

“You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.”

Moving Lines One Thing Jazz Athlete Crafts Classic Unnecessary Great Athlete One Thing At A Time Bluegrass Classic Music Shortstops

Author:Ernest Gaines

“I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

Wanted Dancer Pirate Pittsburgh Shortstops

Author:Gene Kelly

“When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.”

Want Kids Millionaire Shortstops

Author:Rickey Henderson

“I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.”

Team Baseball Presidential Short Time Baseball Team Shortstops

Author:Herbert Hoover

“My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.”

Knows Want Kids College Like You Dad My Dad Your Dad Shortstops

Author:Derek Jeter

“In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'”

Thinking Two Guy Talking Yeah Bars Remembered Someday Two Guys Shortstops

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops.”

Crazy Japan Robots Shortstops

Author:Curtis Granderson

“These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.”

Way Littles Play Facts Wanted School Left Causes High School Daddy Left Handed Shortstops

Author:Luke Appling

“I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.”

Firsts Has Beens Names Careers Saws Player Position Baseball Lists Champion Exception Runners Could Have Been Pitcher Batting Wagner Versatile Shortstops

Author:John McGraw

“You've just got to keep playing hard. You have to remember that you are not just playing for the Twins. There are other teams out there. If anybody needs a shortstop they are going to come knocking on the door. So, you just have to be ready at all times.”

Ifs Needs Hard Remember Doors Team Ready All Time Twins Knocking Shortstops

Author:Jason Bartlett

“Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.”

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Author:Al Kaline

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