Baseball Quotes

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.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

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.

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

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

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

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

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

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

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.