Baseball Quotes
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
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There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.
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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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We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!
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When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.
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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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If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
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I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
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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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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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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 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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I just want to play baseball.
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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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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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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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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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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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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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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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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
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National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.
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Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
