Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Bautista

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

Cleo Moore

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Dan Shaughnessy

What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.

Dan Shaughnessy

When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

Dan Quisenberry

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

Dan Quisenberry

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

Dan Quisenberry

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Jim Leyland

We got good starting pitching again. There's no such thing as momentum in baseball -- you are only as good as your next pitcher.

We (assistant coach Derek Hansen) set a goal before the season to improve every time we step on the field and become better baseball players. Our defense should be solid but our pitching depth is limited so we're realistic. If we improve we should be able to pull off some upsets.

We believe it's good to promote baseball world-wide. Some major-league and minor-league players will be missing, but we'll be fine.

Felix Hernandez

Try this, try that. He'd played baseball a lot, too.

Without them, it would never work. But everybody knows everybody. We like playing baseball and having a good time.

With baseball being as hot as it is, we get to bring all of that goodwill to Pittsburgh.

Stephen Jay Gould

I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. [...] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

Derek Jeter

There are probably a lot of owners who aren't thrilled about it. This is something we feel is a good thing. The players association and Major League Baseball are getting together on it so we're excited about it.

Mike Sweeney

We came close tonight, but in baseball that's not good enough. Tough loss.

We only had 10 hits but we could have easily had 20 because we scalded the baseball today. I thought our at bats were very good today so I'm was pleased with that.

Carl Everett

We'll just have to get to Cleveland and play a little better baseball.

Richard Daley

Well, I wore a Cubs hat, ... Remember, these are baseball games.

Karen Carpenter

While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and playing with my machine gun! I was very tomboyish, quite a character, I hear!

Roger Clemens

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

We like to get somewhere and stay with it because we all realize it's a game of skill, and you like to develop those ninth-graders early and see them through. Baseball coaches are unique in that factor.

When major-league baseball came to Kansas City, Ewing Kauffman always said Joe deserved most of the credit for making that happen.

Finally, this day has come. I look forward to seeing how I improve as a baseball player through overcoming various barriers.

But more importantly, we have to win tonight (Friday). We kept playing good baseball (Thursday), but a walk and a couple of hits really hurt us. But other than that, we didn't play poorly. They threw up a big number on us (six runs in the sixth inning), but we're capable of that, too.

Both the players and the coaches look forward to this game. It is nice to get a win over a rival, and especially considering the type of baseball program that Juan Diego has now. This is a big boost for our team.

Both teams played great baseball. Two days ago we told everyone to wait patiently for today's game... This is what Cuban baseball is all about. Our players wanted to come back strong after losing in a mercy rule game and they came through.

Alison Gopnik

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Willie Randolph

The good thing about the World Baseball Classic is we get to see some kids play that we normally wouldn't.

The good thing about college baseball is that you can come out and play the next day. That's just the nature of our sport. You know that everyday is a new day, and we felt that we had a good chance to take two out of three today.

The good, solid fundamental baseball was not there. And we have six more games to fix it.

Kevin Hall

The governor welcomes the return of Major League Baseball to the Capital region, and we're supportive of the District's effort to maintain their franchise.

We had our best spring ever. The World Baseball Classic brings a new dimension. I think it's terrific.