Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're a baseball town. We've become a baseball town.

We hope to have the ball- fields open by the time the softball and baseball season really gets going. Plans are to have the remaining improvements done by next fall, but it is all weather-related. That is when we would like to have it complete.

We hit the baseball well. I was proud of how they hit the ball Thursday.

We have played in World Cups, world championships and Olympics. The message is already out there. ... In Cuba, baseball is the No. 1 sport. People in Cuba had their doubts about us coming and about the results.

Ozzie Guillen

The expectations for next year are greater but we need to take things step by step. It's a matter of 25 or 30 baseball players. We already know what we must do. Hopefully, the team will return to form.

The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court justice. To use a baseball analogy, just because somebody is a good shortstop doesn't mean you put him in as a pitcher.

The fact of the matter is, the baseball fan is going to get more exciting baseball this spring than he or she has ever gotten before. Overall, there's a net-net benefit to baseball fans.

When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story ... he said he didn't have any interest in taking part,

Edward Abbey

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Edward Abbey

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Atul Gawande

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business...

Eddie Vedder

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

Dizzy Dean

Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.

Dizzy Dean

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

Dizzy Dean

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Dave Pelzer

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing

Luis Sojo

We were coming from behind until Miguel hit the top of the fence. We thought it was a home run. But the umpires, you know, thought different.

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.

Scott Anderson

Many of the upper level men players come from successful baseball careers and believe they are still playing in the major leagues.

Barry Zito

So I'm going to get some grief about this. I don't say a word when I strike him out, but I'm sure I'll hear about this.

She was a pioneer in so many ways in terms of integrating the team with the community, in terms of using her opportunities with baseball to push forward a civil rights agenda.

She was a pioneer in so many ways, in terms of integrating the team with the community. She's also one of the owners who pushed very hard to get recognition for Major League Baseball when they started to sign some of their players.

The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team.

Jim Murphy

The picture of the caboose was a no-brainer. The railroad helped build this city. As far as the baseball scene is concerned, you have to look at what people were doing a hundred years in Oneonta. Everyone played baseball.

The overall number of seats doesn't change. Those are pre- and post-game seats, not baseball seats. But we think it's worth the investment.

The past two games, we've played five innings of good baseball. They continued to put pressure on us, and we just didn't make the plays.

The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.

Don Yaeger

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Ne-Yo

Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.