Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hideki Matsui

An event like the baseball classic is very important for baseball. This time of year is a very important time to prepare for the season. It was a very difficult decision for me, but I have no regrets.

Teddy pitched exceptionally strong. Our errors did come back and hurt us. Otherwise it was a good baseball game. It came down to who played the cleanest defensively and we did not.

Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.

Jim Nelson

Sometimes it's difficult. What you need to do when you're playing the game of baseball is have a short memory. You've just got to play this pitch, this moment . . . You can't control anything else.

Milton Bradley

Some people, that's all their life is ? is baseball ... how many hits they get, how many runs they drive in, how many plays they make, ... They're working for a plaque. I'm not working for a plaque. I'm working to put food on my table.

Rotisserie baseball may be the most ridiculous duplication of effort in the history of human beings, but that's hardly a concern.

Marcus Giles

Running away with it is the last thing we need to do. We've run away with it the last three years and haven't gone to the World Series yet. I think we get a little too caught up in winning the division. We always want to pat ourselves on the back ... for winning 13 in a row. Let's see how many World Series we can win in a row, or even get to.

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Sam has done a good job for this organization for a long time. He is a solid baseball man. He has a great personality and is a very committed baseball professional.

Ramon, before he got hurt, was tops in baseball as far as what he did behind the plate and beside it. To have those two guys and me as an emergency guy is going to be pretty good.

At this point, he's got football responsibilities. The next four weeks, I don't expect him to be around baseball much. Once he gets done, we'll have him back full time. He's shown he deserves to be on the field.

At the time, baseball represented values we were fighting for. Things like democracy and teamwork were so important for us.

Hank Aaron

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Jerry Reinsdorf

Double Duty shared such a love for baseball and a passion for life. We all loved to listen to his stories and share in his laughter. He leaves such a great legacy after experiencing so much history and change during his long life.

Doug's in charge of baseball operations; that's in his court,

Doug is one of the most highly respected executives in baseball and this extension validates our belief that his leadership is vital to the Milwaukee Brewers continued development,

Thomas Sowell

Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as individualistic those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.

Rick Reilly

And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.'

Mike Wallace

And what you're doing to baseball now, you're taking on the whole baseball establishment,

Arne Harris, producer-director for WGN-TV... is in his 34th year on the job, meaning he is closing in on Jack Brickhouse's record: Most Chicago baseball losses watched, one man, lifetime.

Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what you did in your last at-bat or even your next at-bat.

Driving a powerboat is a bit like having one person throw a bucket of water over you while another hits you with a baseball bat.

Drivers pulled over on Travis County roads this week could be pleasantly surprised to find out they were targeted for driving well. If somebody does something illegal, we probably won't give them the baseball tickets.

Tom Glavine

There's always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances,

There's two weeks left, I still don't know what's going to happen. The only thing I can do is keep playing baseball and have fun.

At a time when not many people were coming to the park, Ron took over and built this into the successful business it is now. Everybody who loves baseball and enjoys coming here should be thankful to Ron McKee.

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that's baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd give wrestling a shot.

Joe Torre

At a charity event, Bernie sat in with James Taylor and played with him. He's an artist. Bernie doesn't have baseball instincts like a lot of other players. Instincts, you're not born with. He's got to digest and calculate. He works extremely hard.

Tom Glavine

As much as I love hockey, very rarely can I sit down and watch a game on TV from start to finish. I can do that with a baseball game, a football game. I just don't know what it is.

All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become somewhat of a recluse. A lot of his baseball friends had tried to get him out of the house. It's just a sad commentary on the effects of chronic depression.

Absolutely. I think Minnesota is arguably, as a small market club, one of the finest organizations in baseball -- or at least a photo finish with one or two other franchises.

A basketball or a baseball or a football will all break a window in different ways.

It's just one game. There's a lot of baseball left to play.