Baseball Quotes

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

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

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.

I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

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.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

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

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

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

Baseball is the life.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

I am the best in baseball.

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

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 don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

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

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

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. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

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.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

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 needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.