Baseball Quotes

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

The main idea is to win.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

You just cant predict baseball

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

The National League is baseball to me.

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.