Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Stengel

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

Casey Stengel

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Casey Stengel

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Casey Stengel

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

Casey Stengel

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Casey Stengel

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Casey Stengel

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Casey Stengel

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

Calvin Trillin

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

Calvin Coolidge

Baseball is our national game.

Ichiro Suzuki

With the World Baseball Classic, this year is a bit different. Our goal will be to win the tournament and after that I'll start thinking about the regular season.

Raul Ibanez

Wow, I had no idea. This is a shock. This really takes me by surprise. I thought he had a lot of baseball left in him.

We're starting to peak at the right time. We peaked last year in the last month of the season. We've played our best baseball these last two weekends. If we can continue to improve then we've got a shot to play for something special here at the end.

We've got a veteran team and we're playing some good, solid baseball right now. There's always room for improvement so we'll just keep after it.

Bo Jackson

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

Bo Jackson

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Bo Jackson

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Bo Jackson

I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

Billy Mays

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

When we had the bases loaded, no outs and were down 9-7, I thought we'd get the two runs. We just didn't execute.

When we first got married, baseball wasn't her favorite sport.

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Jennifer Wilson

What a great day for Red Sox baseball.

Jim Lefebvre

What he's going to do (in the WBC) is show a lot of people that he can compete at a very high level and elevate everyone's opinion of the baseball talent in China. When he's hitting well, he is a fun guy to watch.

Clint Hurdle

We can definitely get used to (having Kim around), because while he's had his trials and tribulations in other areas, he's playing good baseball for us.

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.

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.