Baseball Quotes
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Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.
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That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.
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George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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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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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
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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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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
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I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
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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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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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Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
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America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.
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True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
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When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
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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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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
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This is an acknowledgment of an entire area of the world and a heritage and multiple countries. This is not a racial thing. The Latin American influence in baseball has been pervasive.
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That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
