Baseball Quotes

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Hey man! Get away from me!

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of baseball.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Baseball is a game of the soul.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

It's great to be young and a Yankee!

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

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.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.