Baseball Quotes
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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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Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
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What a great hitch to pit!
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In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.
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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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From the standpoint of family entertainment, baseball remains very affordable compared against comparable entertainment. MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
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Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
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Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
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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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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
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Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".
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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 a dull game only for those with dull minds.
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If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.
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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 started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
