Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Parsons

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

Chris Shelton

You just have to look at me. There's no way. If you come to the ballpark and you look at me in person, you could tell I'm not on steroids. I don't have the body to be on steroids, that's for sure.

Ricky Nolasco

You can come to the ballpark and eat well.

We are in the same ballpark and we are not doing our jobs. That's what I'm saying. It's as simple as that.

We have to steal bases to be successful. We're not a big three-run homer team, and speed shows up to the ballpark everyday.

Jason LaRue

Our ballpark is obviously a launching pad. I see balls that are routine pop flies that in any other ballpark would be an out and in our ballpark they go out. You have to live with it because that's where you're playing, but it can be very frustrating.

Buddy Bell

He was good. I know he threw a few too many pitches in the first inning, but he settled in. You know, I think a lot of times the first time in a real stadium other than a Spring Training ballpark gets your hearts started a little more -- maybe throwing through his stuff a little bit -- but I thought he was really good.

Joe Torre

To me, it's exciting, ... You go to the ballpark every day with a need to win. It's an everyday need.

Felipe Alou

No question there was one guy who could dominate this ballpark and hit balls out ? that was Barry. We miss him on the field, an MVP guy. We've been spoiled here.

Clint Hurdle

Sometimes a change of scenery can help out with the confidence level. That's as good an outing as you're going to see at this ballpark for as long as it stands here.

They've been popping up a little earlier. I'd say about 10 percent have hatched already, at most. That's just a ballpark figure.

Dusty Baker

They say you come to the ballpark and you'll see something you haven't seen, and I haven't seen that before when you hit the guy on the helmet with a double-play ball. They get a run out of that and another run on the two-out base hit.

Dusty Baker

They say come to the ballpark and you'll see something you haven't seen before. I haven't seen that before, you hit a guy in the helmet on the double-play ball.

Vin Scully

A lot of people in the ballpark are now beginning to see the pitches with their heart.

You wouldn't be able to go to the ballpark and buy a shirt or cap with the team name on it.

Ozzie Guillen

You might want to go to your room, call your mom and cry, but when you come to the ballpark and put on the uniform, you have to be a man. I have 30 men to lead.

Some people will have a tough time adjusting. They're used to coming to the ballpark with maybe 15,000 people there, and that's not going to happen anymore.

During the game you will be able to see into the ballpark from the sidewalk, but there is a corridor where fans with tickets may be standing in, so we can't guarantee what the view will be.

Demand is very high. But some of that is because of reduced capacity for the start of the season. Obviously, it's also because of the new ballpark and also because we've had the best record in baseball over the last two years. It's all those things at once. You would expect demand to be high.

The team's slightly re-engineered. There are some familiar faces, some new faces. Just like a baseball team, we feel the ballpark should be re-engineered and refreshed. We've spent a lot of time and a lot of effort to keep it highly desirable for the fans. When this ballpark is 30 years old it will still look young.

Rafael Palmeiro

I've always known to come to the ballpark and play and be in the lineup. I've never missed time because of injuries. I've had days off, where I knew coming in that I wasn't going to play, but I've never sat out 10 days in a row during the season. That was totally new to me. To play a whole career and not know what that's like, that's unusual. Now I'm dealing with it as best I can.

Jim Edmonds

A three o'clock start in any ballpark is tough, but it's especially tough here. I'm not looking forward to too many more of those.

That was a big win for us. Our team, at this point of the year, needed that. We've got to stay focused and come to the ballpark every day to play the way we're capable of playing.

That's why you come to the ballpark every night.

We felt D.C. deserved to distinguish itself. Another red brick ballpark would be just like those in other cities.

I'm glad how the kids responded and came to the ballpark today ready to play. It was a solid effort on our part to play a first-place team and keep us in the thick of the race.

The ballpark played kind of small tonight. So guys may have been nibbling at the strike zone a bit.

That is probably a story that needs to be told nationwide. Everyone's raving about the Cardinals Ballpark Village, but look at what's happening in the heart of downtown. I think it will be the living room of St. Louis.

It's important to have the ballpark get a new look.

The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.

Not like it used to be. It didn't seem like we were excited -- this whole ballpark just seemed quiet all night to me.

Clint Hurdle

After the line of games he put together going into this start, I had my mind made up when I got to the ballpark that if he gave us good effort through six innings, that's going to be plenty. Leave his confidence at a high and turn it over to the people who have gotten us in position to build some of the momentum we've been building.

I travel all over the country and I don't know if you can see another city where literally every fan wears the team colors the way Cardinals fans do. We saw people outside our hotel at 9 in the morning walking around in Cardinals clothes. I think that's what strikes me even more than the ballpark -- the fans here.