Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

We're interested and we're waiting for a proposal from Major League Baseball. It's not going to generate the kind of excitement that World Cup soccer does, given the history and the equity just isn't there yet. But at least for this country, anything with the America's pastime and the American flag is sure to be a winning combination.

Barry Bonds

When you've got the excitement I've created -- my home runs are a lottery ticket -- then you've got a city that's excited, ... If you win, you're going to create excitement, but you've got to win games. You can't not win and expect people to come to baseball games.

Adam Everett

When you've got one of the best closers in all of baseball protecting a three-run lead, you feel pretty good about things,

Louis C. K.

Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.

Mark Cuban

I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

We have high expectations. We're looking to get back to playing good baseball and doing things right.

Bruce Catton

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Brett Hull

Baseball has all the money.

Bowie Kuhn

I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

You can't win them all but you can try.

Babe Ruth

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

Babe Ruth

The termites have got me.

Babe Ruth

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

Babe Ruth

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Babe Ruth

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

Babe Ruth

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Babe Ruth

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

Babe Ruth

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

Babe Ruth

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

Babe Ruth

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

Babe Ruth

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

Babe Ruth

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

Babe Ruth

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Babe Ruth

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Babe Ruth

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

Babe Ruth

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Babe Ruth

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

Babe Ruth

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!