Baseball Quotes
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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
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Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
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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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Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
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I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
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I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.
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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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That's part of baseball. You're going to have those days. The name of the game is picking each other up.
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Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.
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Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.
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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.
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I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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Christian. Faith, Family, then Baseball. If what you did yesterday still seems big today, then you haven't done anything today!
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The ballgame is over...in this inning.
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Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
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Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.
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The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.
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I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
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I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.
