Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Breslin

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

Jimmy Breslin

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

Eric Gagne

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Heiden

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

Eric Davis

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

Eric Davis

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

Eric Davis

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

Eric Davis

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

Eric Davis

I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

John Irving

I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

Chad Cordero

Any time you have a chance to go out there and play for your country, it's a big deal. You always want to go out there and represent the USA the best you can, especially since baseball is out of the Olympics and this is basically our Olympics.

Any time you play at home you have an advantage, but this year especially with our fans showing up and supporting us. That makes the players more comfortable and we have played a lot of good baseball at home this year.

Zach Duke

So far it's been pretty good to me. It's such a fun place to play. It's just a good place as a baseball player to come.

Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution. His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.

Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution, ... His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.

Jonny Gomes

He was the best baseball player in our county, ... He was the guy, a star baseball and basketball player and the quarterback on the football team.

Kenny Lofton

He's part-time baseball player/basketball player/bowler/ golfer. I don't know about football.

Dan Uggla

He's owned me. The only hits I got off him were a home run in college and the home run today. He's had an up-and-down career, but he has big-league stuff. I think he's going to be around a long time.

Sandy Alderson

To me it will be one more of those esoteric statistics, one more of those historic footnotes that make baseball so great, because it is unpredictable,

Ichiro Suzuki

To be honest, I never imagined we'd get there. We had a great team, the best. I hope we showed everyone what a great sport baseball is.

Elbert Hubbard

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Coach Powell came to help me in 1998 when he retired from teaching. He has been a great help to me ever since, and this baseball program as well as this community are very blessed to have him here to help guide these young men when they are in high school.

Coach Hill demands a lot of his players. He's a great coach and a great baseball guy.

Coach does a great job of keeping us loose, and we just rally around that. We're just having a lot of fun. We play baseball in practice, he sings, he dances ...

Despite the public assurances of Major League Baseball officials, we have questions about the effectiveness of its new drug policy.

Mark Shapiro

Detroit's lineup is as deep as anyone's in baseball if those guys stay healthy and on the field.

June Jones

Dennis said, 'Why don't you go to the baseball field? It made perfect sense. He came all the way here (from San Diego) to tell us that.

Guillermo Diaz

Denis' dad and Roberto Clemente were first cousins. Baseball is still our more popular sport in Puerto Rico, but basketball is really catching on.

Antioch has always had good baseball programs, and successful players seem to want to come back and help the next group. There's a lot of competition to be good here. It's kind of like football at De La Salle, where if you're not there working, someone else is going to take your spot.

Anthony is obsessed with baseball so there couldn't be a more perfect place for us to be. I don't think I've ever seen him this excited. He and Olivia are going to be talking about this all the way back to New York.

Mike Sweeney

Any loss is tough. Santana showed today why he's one of the best pitchers in baseball.

And the other thing we need to do is get out in the community. We'll want to see Little League teams coming to games together, hold baseball camps, and do things of that nature.

Gerry Mulligan

And the other thing we do: we periodically have softball games with the band, because they're all baseball nuts that helps to keep the spirit alive.