Baseball Quotes
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The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.
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I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
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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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
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Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
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The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.
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I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
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I'm uncomfortable with it. When I thought of playing baseball, I never thought of that. It was never important to me. I am a little tired of it, and I've had enough.
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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
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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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The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.
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I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.
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I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
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Obviously, it'd mean a lot to fans and baseball historians and stuff like that. But we're not worried about that. We're worried about the 25 guys in here.
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I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
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As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
