Baseball Quotes

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

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.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

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

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

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

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!