Baseball Quotes
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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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.
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When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.
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I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
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The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.
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Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
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I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Babe Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as Willie Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to 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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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
