Baseball Quotes
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
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We'll see after this week. I'm very happy right now to see this team bouncing back and seeing what we can do. If we come out and play good baseball, I'll put our chances up against anybody.
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His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.
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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 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.
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I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.
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When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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It would be sweeter, ... Everybody would like to see the Yankees not make the postseason one year. If Boston wins that division, and we do our job by beating the Yankees, it would be a tremendous thing. It means we're playing good baseball against a team that sets the standard for good baseball.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
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I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.
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Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
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If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.
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I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
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What a great hitch to pit!
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I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game
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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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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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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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I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.
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A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
