Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

David Ortiz

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

David Ortiz

I just want to play baseball.

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.

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.

David Halberstam

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

Curt Flood

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

Curt Flood

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

Curt Flood

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

Curt Flood

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

Curt Flood

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

Curt Flood

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

Curt Flood

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Curt Schilling

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

Curt Schilling

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

Curt Schilling

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

Curt Schilling

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

Curt Schilling

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

Curt Schilling

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Confucius

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Daniel Sunjata

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

David Letterman

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

David Einhorn

Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

Delmon Young

I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.