Baseball Quotes
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I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.
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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 didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
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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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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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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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He made a little adjustment. No one in here is worried about that guy. All you have to do is look on the back of his baseball card and know that everything is going to be all right.
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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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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 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 am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
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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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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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Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
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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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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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There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.
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“I came to this country to play baseball and give the best on the field. What people think outside the field, I don’t worry.”
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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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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 look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
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Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
