Baseball Quotes
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This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.
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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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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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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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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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I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
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That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.
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There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
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I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
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Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
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If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball.
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Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
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I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.
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Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.
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Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
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The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.
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If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
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Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.
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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
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Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
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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.
