Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Brock

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Lou Gehrig

I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

Lou Gehrig

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Jonathan Frakes

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Jon Stewart

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

Jon Miller

Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

Jon Lester

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

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

Jim Leyland

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Jim Leyland

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you... adjustable baseball caps with no logo on the front and mesh netting in the back, for being a great way to say, 'Hi, I'm over 80 years old.'

Joel Osteen

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

Jimmy Piersall

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Jim Thorpe

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

Lou Piniella

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

Lou Piniella

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

Linda Fiorentino

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.