Baseball Quotes

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

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

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Baseball is just my job.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.