Baseball Quotes
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With my father, there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip. You got one of everything. And that was all you got. It was enough, though, and I adored him. He was a god to me.
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Baseball is a man maker.
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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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The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.
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Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
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There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.
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When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
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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 never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
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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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When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.
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There is but one game and that game is baseball.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
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People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
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If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.
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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
