Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've always tried to hit that hole. I'll protect him and do whatever it takes. My job is to get him to third base with less than two outs, and we'll have a 1-0 lead with the guys around me.

Tim Hudson

I usually hit doubles and homers, ... I didn't know whether I should turn left or right at second base.

Jaime Camil

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

Kenny Lofton

I've always been a guy who can impact the team in so many aspects: defensively, offensively, on the base paths, in the dugout. As long as I'm out there I feel good about it.

Ryan Howard

I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.

Russell Baker

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

Ron Darling

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

Ron Darling

Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?

Tyler Hoechlin

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

Tyler Hoechlin

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

Tyler Hoechlin

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

Tyler Hoechlin

Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.

Tyler Hoechlin

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

Troy Glaus

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

Tris Speaker

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Tris Speaker

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Tris Speaker

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Tris Speaker

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Tris Speaker

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Rhona Mitra

You have to be content with who you are on a day-to-day basis.

Raymond Chandler

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Rick Tocchet

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

Ozzie Guillen

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

Ozzie Guillen

He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.

Mary McGrory

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

Phil Taylor

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

Peter Lynch

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Peter Lynch

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Prince Fielder

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.

Phyllis Schlafly

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

Mike Fitzpatrick

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

Robert Frost

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.