Baseball Quotes
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Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming in the summer. If you look at 'SportsCenter,' most nights in the summer, it's, what, 70 percent baseball.
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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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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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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
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I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
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It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
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You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.
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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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Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
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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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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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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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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 isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
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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.
