Baseball Quotes

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.

I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" .

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

Everything is contagious in baseball.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

I have never willingly chased a ball.

Looking scary with a baseball outfit on and a little bouffant, you know, it just does not work. Especially with sculpted eyebrows.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I don't know anything about baseball.

I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory)