Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Reilly

In 'Magnolia,' I had to learn all this police training. In 'For Love of the Game,' I had to perform like a major-league baseball player.

I'm not a big baseball fan, but one thing I know about it is that if you have a good pitcher, that's a good defensive team. If you can stop people, you give yourself a chance to win. I thought we played pretty good defense.

I mean, how do you play winning baseball that way? I challenge players to understand how the game's played.

Jack Morris

I know there's a lot of people who publicly don't want to say this right now. But I think they're hoping that the momentum this occasion brings, and the way it brings the community together, will help extend this to the next step that they all want, which is a new stadium and baseball for a long time.

Johnny Damon

I know this is the greatest moment in my baseball career. We're world champions now. This is a dream come true.

Jason Giambi

I know we like to think baseball is America's game, but that isn't totally true. There are some teams out there that can play this game pretty well.

I know the baseball fraternity were watching at home. It was televised at four this morning. I know a lot of people watched and I can imagine their feelings of joy for what we did.

Jason Bartlett

I know what to expect. I got the butterflies out last year. Now I can go back to playing baseball like I did in the minor leagues.

Chadwick Boseman

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

I knew we were going to struggle offensively early in the spring. There's a reason pros go down and play 30 or 40 exhibition games in the spring. Baseball is a game where you need to see repetition, repetition, repetition.

I like our attitude. We have guys that are very hungry for baseball and they are great kids to work with. They want to learn and are willing to do whatever it takes. Right now, our strengths are our pitching and defense. We need to work on our hitting.

Barry Bonds

I just want to win a championship. I'm playing to win a championship. That's the only thing that keeps me going. ... The only thing keeping me in the game of baseball right now is trying to win a championship for the team, trying to win a championship with a bunch of guys.

Johnny Damon

I'm not going to get too excited about anything, not until we clinch a playoff spot and then after that not until you win the World Series. So there's not much comfort right now. We know we have to go play good baseball or we know our season is going to be over.

Alex Rodriguez

I'm not concerned with what Boston does or Cleveland. We have to play our best baseball down the stretch.

Johnny Damon

I'm excited; Boston is where I've had my greatest memories of playing baseball. To me, it's just playing baseball games. I'm looking forward to going there and getting it over with.

Alex Gonzalez

I'm excited and proud to be playing for one of the best teams in baseball.

I'm excited about the clinic because I'll get to help kids get excited about baseball.

I'm expecting this to be the biggest single-day ticket sale in our history and Major League Baseball history.

I'm extremely excited to move forward. Baseball has been great to me. It's been a great experience. But I'm definitely ready to move on. The lifestyle - people don't realize how difficult it is. A lot of things happened to me this off-season. There are things more important in life (than baseball). I decided to step away.

Roger Clemens

I'm proud of the way he carries himself out there. But I'd be proud of the way he carries himself if he wasn't playing baseball at all.

I'm proud of them. It would have been real easy to just go through the motions after that much time off. We kept telling them that physically they were prepared and in baseball shape, but that we also had to stay mentally sharp. Tonight, they looked mentally sharp. They came out ready to play.

I'm proud of them, it's been business as usual. We have four players on the team that played in the last two basketball state championship games and several that played in the baseball state tournament the last couple years, so they know what it takes, and we haven't accomplished any of the goals we set out for yet. It's just a reward for the first four games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I'm really proud that I'm only one of two players from Major League Baseball in the final game. I sense MLB is hurting a little bit.

John Buck

I learned the most I've ever learned in one year in baseball, from getting knocked down and getting back up and getting knocked down again. Sometimes that's good for you.

Eric Chavez

I hope we can score five or six runs tomorrow. I hope this will help get our confidence back. There's a lot of baseball left, I hope we can get going again.

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city of Ozark.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jack Morris

I just can't imagine what it would be like here without baseball. I don't even want to think about it. ... I just hope that the last few years - you know, three out of four they were in the playoff hunt - that everybody forgets about that contraction stuff and that some way, somehow, there will be baseball in Minnesota.

I made it. There's a lot of people from the Dominican Republic that don't get this chance. Maybe a couple of guys will play baseball in the major leagues. Not a lot of people get to play football. With this sport I can take care of my family.

I made some pitches I shouldn't make, but I got out of some situations. The key thing is winning. I'd rather have an ugly win than a well-pitched loss.

Ketch Secor

I'm a big baseball fan for sure. I don't know why we started doing it. It was just kind of funny and we always pick out baseball names from my childhood, because that's when the whole baseball reverence happened to me. I guess you could say there is something about old heroes that always makes them worth conjuring up.

I'm a better baseball player now, but my body isn't what it used to be. It's hard getting in the shower sometimes.

I'm a baseball fan, and a longtime Cincinnati Reds fan.