Baseball Quotes
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Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.
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When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.
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I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
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Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
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My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
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Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.
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I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
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Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
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I've encouraged David to get the process started quickly and get it over quickly because baseball doesn't wait around, ... You wait around and things can happen that will set you back.
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Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.
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If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.
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I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.
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I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
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The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
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This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.
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I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
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Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.
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Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
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I'm not playing, am I? That tells you how I feel.
