Baseball Quotes

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

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

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

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 was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

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

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.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

Baseball has all the money.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

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.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

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.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.