Baseball Quotes
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I couldn't see well enough to play baseball when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
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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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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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The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
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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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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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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
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With my father, there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip. You got one of everything. And that was all you got. It was enough, though, and I adored him. He was a god to me.
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.
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There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
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Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
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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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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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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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National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.
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As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
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As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
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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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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
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Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
