Baseball Quotes
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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
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In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
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The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.
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I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.
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Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
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Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
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I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
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Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
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Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.
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Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies
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I'm a huge baseball fan. I always liked Marge, and I just wanted a couple of her things.
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.
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It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
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Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
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So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.
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What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
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Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.
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I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
