Famous Quotes & Sayings

We expect to have a successful year. And to define success, does that necessarily mean winning? No, not necessarily, but keep in mind that the most important thing in minor league baseball is player development.

There is no debate of two facts: that Major League Baseball wants to be in D.C., and there are at least three places where the Nationals can be relocated. But no one should be thinking about the Nationals right now because it is Washington's team.

We talked about this game being like a boxing match. A boxing match can go 12 or 15 rounds. We wanted to play seven innings of baseball tonight.

Jeff Bagwell

We talked about taking a month or so to try to strengthen my shoulder and try to see how my shoulder reacted to non-baseball things. Not throwing a baseball, not hitting a baseball every day.

Bob DuPuy

We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.

Mark Shapiro

We're obviously not playing the kind of baseball we're capable of playing right now. But we've got 142 games to go. We're still .500 (10-10). It could be worse, but I think it will get better.

Weren't playing very good baseball and they really put one on us. We felt like we needed to show up and play.

When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox.

Billy Beane

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

Billy Beane

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

Billy Beane

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Bill James

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Bill James

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Bill James

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Bill James

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Bill James

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

Bill James

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Jim Thome

When I leave the game of baseball someday, I want people to recognize that I always put my teams first,

When I came to live in the United States in February 1996, I came looking for Luis, ... He received me in his house and it was a nice reunion. I heard he was going to baseball tryouts in Coral Springs, so I went with him.

Doug Harvey

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

Tom Wolfe

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.

We won the county baseball championship four years in a row and were in the state playoffs each year.

Ben Gibbard

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

Ben Elton

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

Carl Sandburg

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

Dave Roberts

We've talked about having a swagger. But when you play .350 baseball, or whatever we played, you can't tell yourself to have that swagger. You have to go out there and produce to have it. When you show you can come back and get big hits, then it shows that it's possible. I think it definitely snowballs.

Carl Yastrzemski

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

Carl Yastrzemski

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Carl Yastrzemski

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

Carl Yastrzemski

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Carl Yastrzemski

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Alan Dershowitz

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

Al Gallagher

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.