Baseball Quotes
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
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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?
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
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I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
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That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
