Baseball Quotes
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
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Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
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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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Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.
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One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
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Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
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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 want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
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The ballgame is over...in this inning.
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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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Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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Baseball has been very good to me.
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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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Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
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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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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
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Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
