Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have enjoyed doing baseball but the opportunity just never presented itself to do it on a regular basis on the radio. I'm going to need a crash course on the Saints and the American Association but I'm looking forward to it. It should be a fun summer.

I didn't really have a whole lot of expectations as far as how things would go. We have a lot of talent and we can do some great things. But I didn't say (to the team) that our goal is to win X number of games. Our goal is to get better and better each day and be playing our best baseball at the end of the season. We're on our way to doing that.

Sadaharu Oh

I don't know about the politics, but since it's named the World Baseball Classic, I would like to see the Cuban team there.

I don't know about that. I've got to talk to someone about that. Cow bingo is more important than the baseball game? I don't know.

Barry Bonds

I don't judge those things. I have to concentrate on baseball.

Barry Bonds

I don't judge them. I have to concentrate on baseball. I leave that up to you guys to make those statements in the paper.

Ervin Santana

I don't have to be nervous; It's a baseball game.

Todd Helton

I don't know what to expect. I don't know why baseball would make my stomach feel any worse than sitting on the couch. It's kind of weird not knowing what to expect. But I expect to feel good and I do feel good.

I don't collect the stuff. I collect baseball cards. But I get calls all the time . . . It's a way to make a charitable donation in an unusual way.

Buck Showalter

I'd be happy if someone said he could come back by May 1. The trouble is, there is nothing in baseball to compare this injury to.

I'd be disappointed if we're not a four-bid league, if not a five-bid league. This is a big-time baseball league.

I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a strong realization of that.

I am going to Gulf Shores to spend the week with some friends. But I can't go until Tuesday night because we have a baseball tournament Monday and Tuesday. I can't wait. This is a big week for us.

Paul Quantrill

I am here because I do enjoy playing the game, ... I'm not sure I'm going to pursue playing baseball in the future. It's better for me to finish the season, be professional about it and see if I can't help this team. That's the real reason I'm here, not to prove anything.

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.

Brady Anderson

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

Bradley Whitford

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

Brad Pitt

Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Bradley Cooper

Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Barack Obama

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

Bruce McCulloch

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Brooks Robinson

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.