Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baseball does not mean you are going to be a winner. You are going to have to learn how to lose before you can win in order to have success. We have had tremendous success.

Peter Ueberroth

Baseball deserves to be in the Olympic Games. I think there's some reorganization that needs to be done internationally and domestically. But softball is and was ready to be in the Olympic Games.

Baseball can be an unfair game. Bowman made all sorts of plays, but the last one is the one people probably will remember. We didn't play well, and Wingate was a lot more ready to play than we were. We just wound up scoring more runs.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Baseball and business are all about relationships, like the bond between a team and its fans. The White Sox organization's long-term relationship with Miller Brewing has connected our fans to their beers.

Mike Schmidt

I'm always there for Pete. Major League Baseball has created this Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. I don't think he would mind if the commissioner said no, if the committee voted no.

Mark Teixeira

I'm always ready on Opening Day. It's been the weirdest Spring Training that I've ever had. The World Baseball Classic didn't help, but I feel great and my body feels great.

Rod Barajas

I'm a professional baseball player. Nothing that happens during a game is going to take me away from doing my job.

I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of baseball.

I'm a huge baseball fan. I always liked Marge, and I just wanted a couple of her things.

Edgardo Alfonzo

I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It is a power league.

(My Dad) told me, 'You have the chance to go to UMass and be a good kicker and a decent baseball player,' ... 'or you can play big-time Division I football, now pick.'

Eric Sogard

My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young age, playing baseball.

Matt Clement

More important is him and his health and his family, not baseball. Let's get him healthy and get him healed up, then we'll worry about when he's going to come help us pitch.

Ivan Rodriguez

My goal is to stay healthy and keep on playing baseball as long as I can. I don't play it for the money. I play it because I love the game.

Dustin Pedroia

My goal is to play in the season, not Spring Training games. It would be nice to get out there and show them what I can do. But in the meantime I need to get myself ready for Opening Day and get out there playing, that's the biggest thing. I'm just resting right now, just doing all the rehab stuff, just kind of shutting baseball down a little bit.

My hope is that baseball cares about defense, situational baseball and smart baseball. But in the AL, you'd better have a little power to back that up.

My father wasn't a big baseball fan. However, he thought it would be a better profession then football.

Brian Cashman

Maybe he will be calling me now. I hope so, he's a good baseball man. We'd love to have him.

Maybe get the same contracts as these baseball guys. That would be nice.

David Wright

Now we have to prove to ourselves and the rest of baseball that we can win on the road.

Now we have the same off-season buzz they get in baseball. In the old days, a lot fewer people moved and they tended to gravitate to the same teams.

Next to my family, I loved baseball and football more than anything, ... And when you love something that much, a record means a lot.

Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.

Aaron Rowand

Obviously, it'd mean a lot to fans and baseball historians and stuff like that. But we're not worried about that. We're worried about the 25 guys in here.

Obviously it's a tragedy. Oscar helped a lot of young guys become better pitchers and better baseball players. He has a wonderful family, and Oscar will be missed.

Obviously, he's very concerned about it. We are reviewing the whole relationship with Baseball Chapel.

Obviously, he helped make us a good baseball team two years ago.

Mike Redmond

Nobody was enjoying those types of conditions. It's just not fun playing baseball when it's 100 degrees out. It's just miserable. You have to suck it up. It shows what your team is made of when you play in tough conditions. Our team has a lot of character.

Give credit to them (the Indians) for getting it done. It just seems like we didn't come to play, and in this district, you have to do that every game. We lacked a mental focus. We didn't come out and play baseball the way we are capable. We were tight.

For you, some of the media and press that follow baseball, it might have been a surprise. It's normal for us. This is the way we play baseball in Cuba.

Fundamentally, they beat us in every facet of the game. You can't play baseball like that and expect to win . . . not in this district.

From this day forward, this facility will be known as Lewis-Gale Medical Center Field at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium. The names will always be together.

Johnny Damon

I don't remember some parts of my life because of it.