Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a great experience, there's no doubt. I think the tricky part is you've got to leave it here. We've got to get back to what we do and hopefully play better and cleaner baseball this weekend.

Edgardo Alfonzo

It's a free country. You can say anything you want. True baseball fans don't say stuff like that. What can you do?

Clint Hurdle

It's a fine line between being intimidated and trying to play smart baseball and win a game.

I told John if he wanted to go back into baseball that I wouldn't stand in his way, but that he has an important role with us. I told Frank he was welcome to talk to John to see if he has any interest. He said he would call him and see.

I told him to trust his baseball knowledge and communicate. Those are his strengths. He brings the whole package to the deal.

I told him no way. I'm a baseball guy.

I told him I'd need to take some time to make some decisions, and he was fine with that. I'd like to stay on the field if I can. I've heard from a lot of people in baseball wishing me the best, but I don't have any offers yet.

Jon Gruden

It might have something to do with his shoes, I don't know. It just didn't feel good. He's an important guy to our team. If his Achilles' tendon is swollen and not feeling right, I'm not going to put him out there. Not on that surface (the baseball infield at Dolphins Stadium). Play the percentages and get him right.

Derek Jeter

It's an honor to represent Team USA in the upcoming World Baseball Classic. I'm excited to promote international baseball and it's terrific that gamers who pick up Major League Baseball 2K6 will be able to experience the same excitement of the World Baseball Classic.

Aaron Harang

It's an honor for anybody, especially here, the oldest franchise in major league baseball.

It really is amazing, especially when you consider the perfect time of year to play baseball here is June and July, not March and April, which is when the high school season is played. Our kids play under difficult circumstances sometimes. They have to be tough to play a doubleheader when it's 25 degrees outside. It's either get tough or get in the dugout. But I really believe that helps them when they get to the next level.

It's a little team. Here, everyone's interested in baseball and American football and many people didn't even know that a soccer match was being played today. So it's easy for them, because they aren't playing under any pressure. My mother, my grandmother or my great grandmother could play in a team like that.

It's all in good fun. There's familiarity in how you play. There will be conventional baseball on both ends of the scale.

Jeffrey Loria

It's a killer. It's very disheartening to be in the situation we're in. But we've got no choice. We need to get this thing done, period -- one way or another. I'm not going to be the only one supporting this baseball team -- I mean carrying the team -- financially.

It's all about the nature of the sport. Baseball doesn't make money in college. There might be two or three baseball programs that break even.

It's all about momentum. Mountain Pointe is playing its best baseball right now. We know it and they know it.

David Eckstein

I told them baseball owed them nothing and wasn't a fair game. I emphasized what a privilege that it is to wear a uniform every day. I challenged them to do something to earn and deserve the right to wear a uniform. I warned them that if they didn't, they might not be wearing one.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Konami as an official global partner of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Konami has always been a strong supporter of baseball and it is only fitting that they be part of this historic global event.

George Steinbrenner

It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk.

Either Major League Baseball makes a major concession or the owners make a major concession.

Michael Young

Besides that, the weather is great, the travel is a piece of cake, you can focus entirely on baseball and the facilities are first-class because games are played at Spring Training stadiums. I had a blast. Whoever thought of the AFL, it was a great idea.

Ozzie Guillen

Bobby Cox called me last night and said, 'You'll never retire from baseball; make them retire you,' ... He called me like 4 yesterday and said: 'You're too good a baseball man; people like you. Make those guys fire you. Keep taking money away from them.'

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I think Ohio State fans have done a great job creating an extremely positive atmosphere. I can't believe it is the 10th season.

Ichiro Suzuki

Because I love baseball. That is the No. 1 motivation. What I do is just come here to perform.

Everybody in baseball marvels at what Greg does. He's such a complete pitcher, such a great pitcher. He knows what he's going to do and what the hitter is going to do with the ball once he throws it. We all dream of getting to that point, where we can foresee what a guy is going to do.

Every boy in town played baseball when I was a kid, where now you can tell the interest is really not there in all the kids like it used to be.

Al Gallagher

Everybody forgets Brandon hadn't played baseball in two years (before joining the T-Bones). He should just be a junior in college.

Every game he pitches, it's like the World Series for the other team. For some of them, it could be the height of their baseball career facing a guy like that.

Ozzie Guillen

Every manager in baseball does what I did. The day after you clinch, you play your bench guys. (Atlanta manager) Bobby Cox does it and he's a genius. I do it and everybody says I don't know what I'm doing.

Baseball was something I really enjoyed, growing up. That's all I really played growing up and didn't even play football until high school. I really love being there with my son. Sometimes it's frustrating coaching him because I can get on him a little more than the other kids. He doesn't want to hear it, but that's part of it.

Baseball was his favorite sport. He loved baseball better than anything. He really loved it.

Baseball was big in Buffalo. There were many leagues at all of the parks. Any day or any evening, you could find kids out playing baseball.

Conan O'Brien

Baseball said it's instituting tougher steriod testing. For the 1st offense, players get a 10-game suspension. For repeat offenses, players will get a batting championship.