Baseball Quotes

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.

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.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

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.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

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.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

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.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I love the game of baseball.