Baseball Quotes
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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 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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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
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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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In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
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Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
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Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
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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 always been filled with negative statistics.
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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
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We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!
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You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
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Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.
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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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I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
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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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There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.
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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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If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
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I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
