Baseball Quotes

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

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.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe's best baseball writer when I was in high school.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone's shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I was a baseball fan, at any rate.

The one constant in life is baseball

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Thank you... adjustable baseball caps with no logo on the front and mesh netting in the back, for being a great way to say, 'Hi, I'm over 80 years old.'

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.