Baseball Quotes
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If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
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If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.
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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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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
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I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
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My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.
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I had an addiction to play baseball.
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I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
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In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.
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Never bet on baseball.
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I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
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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.
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It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
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I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
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You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
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When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.
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Baseball is a poorly run business.
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I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
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Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.
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We're going to the World Series, ... It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.
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These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
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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.
