Baseball Quotes

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

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 knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

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

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

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

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.