Famous Quotes & Sayings

For these guys, it's like baseball card owners. They get a real kick out of how many they've found. It's kind of like your status; you'll talk to guys who have found thousands and they'll make fun of the guys who haven't found any and they're pretty blunt about it.

If it was a pitch count, a baseball issue, I could tell you.

Kris Benson

If it wasn't me, someone else would have done it. They were saying the same thing when I signed for $2 million out of college. They were saying the same thing when I signed a $13.5 million contract after my second season. That's just the way baseball works. A week later you're the third- or fourth-highest because everyone else is getting more.

Ozzie Guillen

If we win the World Series, I would quit baseball and run for mayor.

If we were bringing minor league baseball, people knew what it meant. Minor league baseball has 100 years of history. It will take us at least three years. I think we're very much in the catch-up phase as people figure what this is about.

John Tesh

He was a teammate. It would be like the catcher on the baseball team talking about what a jerk the pitcher was. It's just an unwritten rule that you don't do that.

Bill Robinson

He was always in the manager's office after the game, talking baseball. I think he was destined to be a manager. The way he handled himself, he's a smart man. He would be an excellent choice.

Russell Martin

He understands enough in baseball terms to figure out what I'm trying to say. I don't think it's a big issue when it comes to calling a game.

I was pleased with most of the baseball we played down there and we got some good pitching.

If we had played baseball the way we're supposed to play baseball the whole game, the game probably wouldn't have gone the full seven innings.

Jeffrey Loria

If we had gone 11-6 over the last 17 games, we would have won 89-90 games. That's all it would have taken. But you know, baseball is a game of luck, health and bounces. It's hard to play when guys you are counted on are injured. More than half your bullpen had injuries. It was like all the injuries happened at once hit us.

If we have more heart and desire than they do -- and I believe we do -- we'll do OK. Baseball is not a game played on paper. On paper, they win.

Azita Ghanizada

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?

If we can go through those (games) playing good, solid baseball, I think we've got a chance to go pretty far.

If we could win Monday, it would be the greatest victory in Cuban baseball history.

Freddy Garcia

We let all of baseball know that we've got the best pitching staff. We proved it all year long.

We're trying to keep baseball within the Olympics after the 2008 Games, and this decision by the Treasury Department of the United States does not help us at all.

We're trying to get those guys that are part of the (World Baseball Classic) out of here early, so we do it in order of seniority and hierarchy, and Wheels is a senior member of the club.

Bryce Harper

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

Bryce Harper

I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.

The real rivalry is intense, but this is minor-league baseball. It's supposed to be fun.

There are a lot of guys who dip and when you see someone dipping on a baseball field, you just don't think anything of it. But (smoking) is the same thing.

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.

Bill Lee

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

Morgan Ensberg

This seriously is one of the loosest teams in the history of baseball. It has to do with the character of the squad and starting 15-30. When you start off in the loser echelons of baseball, you learn how to come together quickly.

This was a great high school baseball game. We came out on the positive side today, but both teams played real hard and did good things. It was just an exciting high school baseball game.

There are headaches, ... But the hardest part is the emotional pressure - the thoughts of not growing old with my wife or watching my sons' baseball games.

LaTroy Hawkins

We've been playing good baseball, and today was just a small bump in the road. Forget about it, come back out tomorrow night and try to win the series. We can do it. We definitely can do it.

We've been on the road most of the year, so playing on the road we're used to. We've played in some difficult environments and it's made us a better baseball team.

Ichiro Suzuki

We're the best team. Today is the biggest day in my baseball life.