Baseball Quotes

Baseball is a team game.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

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.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

I was born to play baseball.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

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

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids."

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

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

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

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.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

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

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.