Baseball Quotes

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.

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.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.