Baseball Quotes
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I want to be a good actress, I want to be a good person, and I want to play baseball.
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
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During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do.
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I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.
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Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
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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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When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.
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I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.
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Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.
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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.
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As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.
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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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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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At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
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Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
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From the standpoint of family entertainment, baseball remains very affordable compared against comparable entertainment. MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
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A lot of people expected a lot of things and they should. Sexson's probably doing better than what people think. I'm not doing close to what people think. But that's baseball.
