Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Duer Miller

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

Alyssa Milano

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

Alyssa Milano

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

The conventional wisdom in that industry is that kids would rather play video games than collect baseball cards.

We'll shock the world. And when we do it, it'll be the greatest baseball story ever written.

Felipe Alou

What is their proof? ... Are they testing players, too? How do you explain that? Or have they stopped testing now? We just saw him hit five in 30 at-bats. So what's going on now? I hope that he's judged by the real baseball people when he's finished.

Alex Trebek

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

Albert Pujols

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Albert Pujols

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Doug Flutie

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

Donald Trump

Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

Donald Trump

My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

Donald Trump

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

Dwight L. Moody

I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

Dontrelle Willis

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

Donnie Yen

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

Dick Gregory

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Dave Winfield

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

Dave Winfield

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Dave Winfield

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

Dave Winfield

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Dave Winfield

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

Dave Winfield

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

Dave Winfield

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

David Wright

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

David Wright

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

David Wright

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

David Wright

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.