Baseball Quotes
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Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
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One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
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When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.
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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
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Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
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I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
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I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
