Baseball Quotes
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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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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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.
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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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I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
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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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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
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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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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.
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When he died, he held fourteen baseball records, a little man with a bashful smile, a silken swing, baseball's legendary nice guy. His death was the worst that could have happened to baseball, but his playing career had been the best.
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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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Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.
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In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
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There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.
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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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The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
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I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.
