Famous Quotes & Sayings

I always put so much pressure on myself in baseball. There, if you make a mistake, you let the whole team down. Here, I'm only relying on myself, so I'm only letting myself down except for the relays.

Jennifer Saunders

I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and lovely and not too revealing. I went to her book launch and met her editor who said 'why don't you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.'

He will sign. He's going to play professional baseball.

Tommy Lasorda

He was to people all over the world what a baseball player was supposed to be like,

He was their shortstop. He played shortstop as a sophomore and junior. He didn't play baseball as a senior because of football.

Bill Cowher

He will miss approximately five weeks, four games. That is the early diagnosis. Certainly that can be give and take, a week here and there. Really, what we thought initially, that is probably good news based on what we were concerned about the last couple of days.

Jon Daniels

He will be a source of creativity and ideas now and in the future. I am excited about someone with his knowledge and skills joining our baseball operations staff.

He's conscientious about baseball. After last season, he came to me and said he's got to play somewhere. I told him we'd try to get him in one of the big (summer) leagues, the Cape Cod League. He said he never worked much because baseball has been his focus. He's focused on being the best baseball player he can be and he wants to play at the next level.

Dusty Baker

He's concerned about fielding his position and running the bases and all that kind of stuff, ... For D-Lee not to be playing, you know it's got to be something.

Manny Acta

He's become the face of a big part of the United States, a big part of the New England fan base and he deserves it. He's a pro on and off the field, a very likeable guy, and he's true. He's legit. He's not faking anything for a long time now, and he deserves everything he's got right now.

Paul DePodesta

He had a phenomenal career as a player and has a sterling reputation in the game as a person and as a baseball man, ... When he was let go, we spent a lot of time on his name.

Matthew Miller

He has methodically over the years built a fund-raising organization. Now it raises a lot of money. He does that the way you would try to build any organization, which is to develop a committed base and look to expand it.

He had gotten into a couple fights, and one time he and his friends took baseball bats to some kids.

Gary Gaetti

He has a knack of making a really big pitch at the right time. He had the bases loaded, came up and threw a curveball -- it wasn't a great curveball -- and got the guy to hit it to second base hard.

Gary Gaetti

He has a knack of making a really big pitch at the right time, ... He had the bases loaded, came up and threw a curveball -- it wasn't a great curveball -- and got the guy to hit it to second base hard.

Jeff Bagwell

He did a lot of good things for baseball in this city, and it's really unfortunate that the one thing he's remembered for is letting Nolan Ryan leave,

Hedges is real strong, and they've got a good baseball team.

He did this based on his love for this building. I don't think he did this maliciously.

Jim Edmonds

He did the best he could do with what he believed in, and hopefully he'll come here, get a good ovation, have a good weekend, and it will be good for Cardinals baseball all the way around.

Had we had a different system, I'm sure we would have gone through contraction just as baseball has done. Certainly Indianapolis and Buffalo and Green Bay, if they existed, would be somewhere else.

Had one of the best baseball minds I've ever been around. Connie Mack taught him well.

He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue.

He is a very astute, very knowledgeable, very committed person. He loves baseball, but more important he's an excellent student.

Ozzie Guillen

He helps us in the field. But he helps this team more in the clubhouse, in the hotels, in the bus, in the planes. You look around baseball and one of the people they don't say anything negative about is Jim Thome. They love the way he respects the game and treats his fans and teammates.

He has satellite radio and he listens to jazz mostly. And baseball games. White Sox.

He has said from Day 1 of his first term that he's making his decisions not based on any party loyalty but on what he believes is best for the people he represents.

He has the hardest job in baseball. He has to go out and win every time.

Felipe Alou

He is a great player. He has always been a great player, a complete player, a super player. And I hope he is judged by real baseball people when he is finished, by people who know a baseball player when they see one ... on the basis of true facts and not assumptions.

Jeff Conine

He got very emotional when he told us, like your granddad is going away and you're not going to see him anymore. It's tough for him. Baseball is his life.

Brian Cashman

He doesn't need to see him. He wants him to continue the therapy program he has been doing, and says as soon as he feels up to it he can get up on the mound.

J. F. C. Fuller

He gave me a lot of encouragement as a young man, as a baseball pitcher, and he has stayed in touch with me over the years up until the present time.

He fits the club very well. He provides a great deal of energy, he can play defense and run the bases and he hits left-handed pitching very well.

He gives up a base hit, no big deal. He gives up another hit, no big deal. Next pitch, groundball, double play and there you have it. It's a no-panic approach.