Baseball Quotes
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I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.
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Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.
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A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
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History shows that baseball has grown as TV and media coverage have grown. Our mission is to serve fans and do it in all our media.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
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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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In baseball, you've got to keep working.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.
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Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.
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The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
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Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.
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If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
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The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.
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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
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For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in strange and sometimes awkward theme nights. Some of the mascots are ragged or downright bizarre. The ballparks are smaller and filled with fewer fans.
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
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It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
