Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

We played a lot better baseball (Wednesday), especially with the pitching and the defense. We played 100 percent good baseball today. We fine-tuned a few things in practice. This is a good step for a very young team.

Ryan Freel

We played all-around good baseball today, ... That's what happens when you do the little things. This is something to build on. We played small-ball today. The little things have to happen for us to win.

Michael Griffin

We plan on working out together three or four times a week. Year-round baseball is something we can do here.

I thought today was a very big baseball game for our team. I told them yesterday that we haven't done anything at all to slow Kent State down and they've had their way with us. I thought it was important to be competitive.

I think we got respect and credibility so it can only help our program in Australia. And we're young in this game of baseball but I think our guys really took it up to them. That's an All-Star line-up out there.

I think we really just want to continue improving. After last year we just have a goal to play good baseball and to make the playoffs. If we can do that, I think we will have a successful year.

I think we killed ourselves defensively. We can't make four errors and expect to win a Division I baseball game. That can't happen. Routine plays have to be made. We've put a lot of emphasis on defense and this just can't happen.

I think we have enough talent to win 40 baseball games, but we can't do it with nine guys. We'll probably continue to play 13 to 14 guys as starters.

I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one is tough to accept. But the kids never quit. The kids hung in there and we battled back-and-forth, back-and-forth. It was a wild high school baseball game.

Travis Hafner

I think we were the best team in baseball the second half of last season. With the young guys getting a lot of experience last year, we really improved.

Johan Santana

I think we showed everybody what Latin baseball is all about. That's the way we do it. For either side, we showed the passion of the game.

Johnny Damon

I think both sides have pretty much gotten over it. I've gotten over them and they've gotten over me. It's time to get ready for the baseball season.

Bret Boone

I think baseball people know about my defense. If that's what's going to help my chances get back into the major leagues, then that's fine with me.

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.

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.

Daniel Ortega

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

Daniel Okrent

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

Daniel Okrent

If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.

Dan O'Brien

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Conan O'Brien

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Dwight Gooden

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

We used to have a 330-yard cinder track. Now it's cut to 200. They put a baseball field in the back corner.

We understand we're officially in October baseball. It just doesn't seem right to celebrate when your magic number is one.

We shocked the world. A bunch of hockey players beat the United States. Baseball Canada is in ecstasy.