Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to get together. We need to get something organized. It's the same thing we do in baseball: teamwork.

We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to be when you grow up?' ... He said right then he wanted to be a professional baseball player. I wanted to tell him how it was a long shot and he should probably choose something else. It was right there on my lips. I think God stopped me. Instead, I said, 'Luke, somebody has to be a major-league baseball player, so why not you?'

Mark Shapiro

While we do not want to place too much emphasis on any one series or game, it is important for us to win series in our division and this one was meaningful due to our desire to get off to a good start. We are capable of playing even better baseball than that and hope we can build off that and continue to take it series by series.

We wasted opportunities, but when we hit the ball, they caught it. They're a good baseball team. Defensively they are awfully solid.

Two overall great college baseball games were played today. Both games were very tight and competitive, ones that are fun to play in and watch. Monmouth is a very good baseball team. Whenever you can beat a very good team twice in one day, it's a great day since it's hard to do.

Two innings of baseball cost us this whole game. It?s mind-boggling to me trying to digest what just happened.

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.

Frederick Jones

The president wanted to see the matter resolved in a positive way. Our concerns were making sure that no money was going to the Castro regime, and that the World Baseball Classic would not be used by the regime for espionage. We believe those concerns have been addressed.

When you hit a kid, you think what if it was your son. Baseball is probably the most social sport. There's a lot of time between pitches. You could be looking at a vendor or talking to someone, and all of a sudden there's a ball or a bat coming at you.

When you play this game on the Xbox 360, it feels as though you're actually standing on the mound of a real baseball field, or sitting in the benches.

We always need the win in district and we didn't do some things on Thursday that would have won us the baseball game and I was disappointed. But we came out today and did those things. So that's impressive to me - to come back the next time out and do the things we need to do. We have to go to Sam Houston on Tuesday so this is a very good win for us.

Orlando Cepeda

When you go to Pittsburgh, you always go to see Clemente. When the Pirates come to town, you always go to his hotel. And we just talk baseball all night,

We've got to get better in a hurry. That lower lineup (has) got to start hitting the baseball.

With so many juniors leaving school and 21-year-olds eligible to leave at any time, baseball is in a unique position. The schools are staggering through this first year in trying to figure out what the APR really means.

Bucky Dent

We'll work on little things. Little subtle things can really help.

Brian Giles

We've just played inconsistent baseball lately. We have to create more scoring opportunities for ourselves.

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.