Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alvin Dark

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Alvin Dark

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

Anthony Edwards

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

Anthony Jeselnik

Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend.

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.

Milton Bradley

white people never want to see race in anything. There's race involved in everything. There's race involved in baseball.

Grady Little

We feel good about him being able to do that. He's at a point where we hoped he'd be when he takes off to go to the World Baseball Classic.

Mike Young

We were very focused tonight. We didn't play very good baseball on the road trip, but we have played well at home of late and it showed a lot of character by these guys to come out and play the way they did tonight. It was a big win for us.

Barry Bonds

We'll be the oldest outfield in baseball history. A real Medicare unit.

Dick Clark

We were looking for the same objectives that the baseball writers and the veterans committee look for -- longevity, an outstanding career and character.

Bud Selig

When it comes to the integrity of baseball, an impartial independent investigation is called for. Baseball must confront its problems head on.

Mark Ferguson

We're all baseball fans; we all want to see people at the ball park, ... This guy's going to get it done.

Eric Byrnes

We've gone through some times this year where we haven't had some guys produce a whole lot of runs. There's a reason we rank where we are, offensively. I know there weren't a lot of monster years put up, but it seems like this is a good baseball team, and we can score some runs.

We think baseball is a great facilitator. It brings people together, and that's the underlying purpose of our visit,

Chipper Jones

We can bunt guys over. But we're built on power. That's American baseball.

Today is a little bit of middle of the week college baseball. When it?s 14-11, it comes down to which line drive gets hit to which player. Obviously we?re disappointed to come out on the short end of it today, but we had spots where we were two outs away from getting a victory.

What we have is kids that are going to become good baseball players. It's just inexperience right now. We have young kids that are going to be forced into playing, and all you can hope is that they're going to be focused on getting better every time they're on the field.

Lou Brock

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

We want to come here and win, but they also realize our jobs are to get ready for the regular season.

We did not commit a single error in the game. When you can go five innings in high school baseball without committing an error, you improve your chances of winning.

O. Henry

We did have a discussion at one point during the off-season about sending more things to Theo, having more a one voice than three or four voices when it came to baseball, baseball players, baseball issues. But it was actually suggested by Larry.

Jason Dufner

I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.

Jason Bay

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

Jason Bay

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

Jason Aldean

I have a love of baseball and a love of music.

Jason Aldean

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story ... he said he didn't have any interest in taking part,

Ricky Gervais

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

Brian Wilson

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

Brent Musburger

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

Branch Rickey

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.