Baseball Quotes

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

Baseball has been very good to me.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

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.

I am the best in baseball.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

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.