Mike Quade Quotes

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

Mike Quade

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• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Numbers

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• Baseball is a team game.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Way
  • Baseball

• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Game
  • Strong

• While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Baseball
  • Either
  • Cemetery

• If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Baseball

• In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Stop
  • Learning

• On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'

  

  Matt Lauer
  • She
  • Kids
  • Son

• Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Time
  • War
  • Game

• I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • People
  • Guy
  • Baseball

• I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People

• My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Development
  • Died
  • Frank Sinatra

• Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Age
  • Way

• You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

  

  Mike Quade
  • Baseball
  • Apathy