Baseball Quotes
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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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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
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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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Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
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I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.
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Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
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Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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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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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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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.
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Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.
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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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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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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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That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
