Baseball Quotes

• 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

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Father
  • House
  • Brother

• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  

  David Cone
  • Baseball
  • February

• I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Kids
  • Attention
  • Dance

• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Baseball

• Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Baseball

• The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Baseball
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  John Thorn
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Past

• In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Baseball

• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Up
  • Game
  • Emotional

• Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• When you go to Pittsburgh, you always go to see Clemente. When the Pirates come to town, you always go to his hotel. And we just talk baseball all night.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Night
  • Pirates
  • Pittsburgh

• 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.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Good
  • Music
  • Player

• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Good
  • Help
  • Game

• I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Work
  • Done
  • Player

• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  

  Martina Hingis
  • Baseball
  • Tennis
  • Hockey

• I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Education
  • Football
  • Basketball

• I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Baseball
  • My Life
  • Fan

• Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Accepted
  • Burned
  • Detailed

• The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Money
  • Baseball

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