Baseball Quotes
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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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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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Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.
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Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
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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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“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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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
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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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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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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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They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.
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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
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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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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
