Baseball Quotes

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

I'm a baseball freak.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.