Baseball Quotes

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

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.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.