Baseball Quotes
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It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
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Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
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Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.
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When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.
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My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
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There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.
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Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.
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When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.
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With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!
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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.
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I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
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The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
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I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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I had an addiction to play baseball.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
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Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
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When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
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Joe DiMaggio is the best baseball player I ever saw.
