Baseball Quotes
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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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Your country is bigger than baseball.
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
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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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He many not be hurt as much as he really is.
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Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
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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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And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
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Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.
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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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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
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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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There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.
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Baseball is a game of the soul.
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In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
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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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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
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You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
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They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
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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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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
