Baseball Quotes
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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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There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.
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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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I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
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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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I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
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Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.
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Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.
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People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
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The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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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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When it's your turn and guys are in scoring position, you want to get them in. If you don't, it's the guy behind them who will get them in. We play team baseball, and I know that is why we have been so successful.
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Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
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I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
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And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
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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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As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
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You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
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You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
