Baseball Quotes
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Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
Bud Selig
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
Yogi Berra
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
Cam Gigandet
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When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
Charlie Rose
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
Gary Sheffield
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
Carl Yastrzemski
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There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
Jack Kirby
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
Rabbit Maranville
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
Nate Silver
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
Takeru Kobayashi
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watching a baseball game in Los Angeles
Bill Engvall
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
Damon Lindelof
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
Pablo Sandoval
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
Jackie Robinson
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
Nellie Fox
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On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
Dennis Haysbert
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
Jacob deGrom
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul
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Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
Jennie Finch