Famous Quotes & Sayings

I never thought I could get a state title in baseball and somehow not get one in tennis. After the season ended, I thought, heck I'll end my baseball career with a state championship and go back to tennis and see if I can duplicate that.

I never really took to golf until I was in the sixth grade, because I was always playing baseball.

I'm very proud of him, ... For me, personally, he's certainly one of our very best stories and one of the best baseball stories we've had. I'm always impressed by guys who beat long odds. When you hear these stories of guys who were undrafted as juniors and have beaten the odds by long shots, I think they're great stories.

Chris Capuano

I'm very happy to have the win and the runs, but it was a tough game to pitch in the sense that there were a lot of long innings,

Dontrelle Willis

I'm very excited just to meet with him and talk baseball with him. He's an experienced winner and he comes from a great organization that knows how to win. I think he's going to put that personality and that feeling in our locker room, so it's a good choice.

Derek King

I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat and I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom,

Gary Sheffield

I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.

Ian Snell

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

Carlos Lee

I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.

I'm hopeful the fans come streaming back. It's time for the fans to step up to the plate and watch this exciting baseball club.

I'm honored to be coaching one of the premier baseball programs in the country.

I'm having a great time. It's obviously fun, but I don't think about baseball when I'm in bed. I think about how I'm able to breathe, how I'm able to sleep.

I like what he's doing, and I really like his work ethic. He has good baseball instincts and he's made a very good impression.

David Wright

I'll be sitting in bed tonight thinking about the crowd and the energy today. That's what New York baseball is all about. This is what I want to experience in October.

Wayne Gretzky

I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.

Bud Selig

In the interest of security and out of a sense of deep mourning for the national tragedy that has occurred today, all major league baseball games for today have been canceled. My deepest sympathy and prayers go out to the families and victims of this horrendous series of events.

Fay Vincent

In some respects, it's the most damaging and difficult mess for baseball since the White Sox scandal in 1919.

Kevin Towers

In talking to him, he's got me excited. He really wants to show the rest of baseball he can be a real force. Certainly, he's going to be a presence in the middle of our lineup.

In Puerto Rico everybody is so excited because they have not seen so many big-league players before. The Latin American countries take a lot of pride in baseball being the national sport. They want to see this because this is so unique. In the United States there are so many games and there is a team in every city.

Tom Glavine

I like to be in a position of helping people. I find it very humbling that, simply by playing baseball, I'm in position to help so many people. I never take that for granted.

Mark Buehrle

I like to get out in the woods as much as I can to get my mind away from baseball and kind of get away from everything. It's nice to get out there and listen to everything, the wildlife and the smells.

Ted White

I just think we've been hurt with weather. We always know it's going to be stormy in the springtime, but I can't remember there ever being so much snow. ... I'm just looking forward to it being sunny and feeling like baseball season.

I just put my head down and played hard. Every pitch, every at-bat, I concentrated on playing baseball.

I remember one time I saw Tommy Lasorda throw out the first pitch for a game and with all his baseball experience, playing and managing, didn't even get the ball to the plate. I want to get the ball to the catcher and not dribble it up there.

I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college.

I love situations like that. That's why I play baseball, to try to come into big situations and come through. If there's any situation like that, I love it.

I'll take some great things from baseball, but the people I've met and the experiences I've had in college, I'm going to miss it quite a bit.

I look at the culture of baseball and its influence on society and society?s influence on baseball.

I look at it this way, everybody wants to manage because it's the greatest job in baseball. But if you can't manage, being the bench coach of the Yankees is the best job in baseball.

I'll make that trade every day of my career. We're a much better baseball team having this problem than not having this problem at all.

Kevin Millar

I'll tell you what, it's a huge loss for the Red Sox. Personally I think Theo was very, very smart and intelligent about understanding baseball players, understanding what kind of team to bring in and what group of guys could gel together. I think he's proven that for three years that he was there. We won a championship, we won 95 games three straight seasons. He's been tremendous for myself personally. I wish him the best of luck, I'm sure he'll have a lot of takers out there.

Penny Marshall

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I know him to be a really quality baseball man. I'll guarantee you, he knows the game.