Baseball Quotes
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Eric Alterman
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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
Jimmy Breslin
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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.
Alvin Dark
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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
Willie Stargell
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I love baseball.
Keith Hernandez
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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
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This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance, ... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community.
William Collins
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How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Luke Scott
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Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.
Jerry Coleman
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I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.
Derek Jeter
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.
Bryce Harper
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I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.
Cole Swindell
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'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
Ann Turner
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At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.
Jerry Coleman
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My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
Jose Canseco
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I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.
Gary Sheffield
