Baseball Quotes

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

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!

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

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.