Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did some good things today, and got to see some good kids make lots of plays. It was a great crowd, good ballgame, and it was really a good weekend. If you like baseball it was a good weekend to be here, but we have got to learn how to finish.

Brian Baumgartner

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Alex Gibney

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Alan Ritchson

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Orlando Cepeda

This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.

The property has one of the few remaining baseball fields from that era in the whole country that has not been bulldozed. It is an important property for Durham and we want to be part of this project.

Phil Garner

Tough loss, no question, but we've still got a lot of baseball to play. No question in my mind that we'll bounce back and play well.

Roy Oswalt

This stadium has a lot of baseball memories in it, and to come back here and pitch in this stadium before it's gone is great. Hopefully the biggest thing with us is to get going early, get in a groove early and hopefully get some momentum going our way.

Geoff Blum

You look back at the last 150 years of baseball and you can probably count on one hand how many times that play has worked. So you can call it luck, you can call it savvy, you can call it whatever you want.

Jack Horkheimer

You don't need a big object. Something the size of a golf ball, a baseball, or even a basketball could look as big as a jeep or flaming bus.

Tom Glavine

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Tony La Russa

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

We want to continue to work with groups in the community. We're hoping this will help raise funds for our bachelors of science nursing program and the friends of baseball. We intend for this to be an event, not just a baseball game.

We want to be a part of the tournament, and I think Cuba would be an ideal place because it already has experience organizing baseball events.

Adam Sandler

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.

Adam Dunn

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

Adam Dunn

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

Adam Dunn

I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.

Adam Dunn

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

Anthony Jeselnik

Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend.

Mark Shapiro

When healthy, he's been one of the most effective relievers in baseball.

We beat a good baseball team tonight. Pleasant Grove is a very scrappy bunch.

We beat a good baseball team. It was a win we needed. We got the runs when we had to get them.

Clint Hurdle

Those are called shutdown innings. That's a big part of baseball. When you score, your opportunity to shut out the other team the next inning is there and you need to capitalize on them.

Ozzie Guillen

To me, this kid is the best pitcher in baseball right now, ... He's been the best the last two years.

Yeah, but you should have seen what his hand looked like. After the game it looked like he had a baseball glove on it.

Dan O'Brien

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

We didn't bring the same intensity as they did. Good thing about baseball is you get a second chance two days later.

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

We didn't really play good baseball all day.

Carl Everett

We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.

We are playing good baseball right now, we are not committing turnovers like we were earlier in the year.