Baseball Quotes
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We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
Nellie Fox -
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
Adam DeVine
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
Nate Corddry -
Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.
Billy Evans -
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
Gary Bettman -
When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
Jackie Robinson -
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
Burleigh Grimes -
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry
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Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.
Jerry Coleman -
I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
Mark McGwire -
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
W. P. Kinsella -
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
Phil Knight
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Baseball is a game of inches.
Branch Rickey -
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
Eric Davis -
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
Dizzy Dean -
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
D. B. Sweeney -
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate Silver -
People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.
Jake Peavy -
We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
Pat Gillick