Baseball Quotes
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To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
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From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.
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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
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The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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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.'
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
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There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.
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I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
