Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did a nationwide survey of tapes to find someone who could step in and do baseball when I was gone, and Bill was the guy we selected. It was obvious sooner or later that he would be doing his own thing. The broadcast business has lost a good one. It's just a shame.

We did a couple of little simple beaded tulle jackets. There are tulle blouses, tulle baseball jackets that have silver hammer work on them. So they're very sporty, but very relaxed and elegant at the same time,

We didn't make the play on the bunt and it snowballed from there. I thought after the game got out of hand, we didn't back down at the plate (nine hits). We just didn't get the starting pitching. In baseball has always started and ended with starting pitching. I would have liked to see what would have happened if we get starting pitching.

Chan Park

We didn't just play a baseball game, we brought together many Koreans. Each player is trying to win the game, but it's not only about the game. We're bringing Korean people together. I'm really happy for the country. I really hope Japan wins the championship.

We didn?t hit like we did all year, ... but that?s what playoff baseball is all about.

Jim Miller

We had our teams everywhere. The baseball team went to New Mexico State, men's and women's basketball went to the University of Texas at Tyler, the swim team was at Emory, track and field went to LSU, men's golf to LSU-Shreveport, the women to Nicholls State. And we cancelled the volleyball season.

We went out there and played good baseball, and we did some of the things we were supposed to do. Either team could've won that game. Unfortunately, it just didn't work out for us.

We wanted an individual with experience in the game who could serve as a mentor. On top of that, he's a first-class individual who knows how much baseball means to the area.

We like to tell everyone we can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Both are rich in baseball tradition. Both are going to be well-schooled so to speak. Both know how to play the game.

Bringing a museum like this to Tropicana Field only helps cement Tropicana Field as the baseball capitol of the state of Florida.

Brian is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball and we're glad to be able to keep him in Washington for at least the next four years. It is the goal of any organization to sign, develop and then retain their own homegrown players, and this is what we've accomplished with Brian's contract.

J. Taylor

Brandon not only improved his baseball skills, but he worked hard in the classroom. He made many sacrifices and spent many hours getting better.

Ned Colletti

Brian goes about his position in a very methodical and thoughtful way. He also has developed a great relationship with ownership. They are so respectful of baseball operations. It's about as good a match as you can have between baseball ownership and operations, and it works. There is respect both ways.

Barry Zito

Brown was way out in front of a changeup, ... That's just the baseball gods there. ... I haven't seen their games, but I figure they hadn't gotten breaks like that.

Brooklyn is the only place in baseball where money doesn't matter. Only the fans do.

Best hitting coach in baseball, ... He has this way of communicating and getting things through to you. We look at what we're doing like what Tiger Woods went through, revamping the swing. He took a few steps back and one step forward.

Early in the season, we shot ourselves in the foot. The last couple months of the baseball season, you want to make it tough on other teams.

ESPN has been a tremendous television partner and I am extremely pleased that we will be enhancing our relationship with their coverage of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. The magnitude of ESPN's reach will provide the broad, in-depth coverage that this event deserves.

Especially when you see Houston there. I love baseball, but I'm definitely watching football. Plus, I have to keep up with my guys.

Especially smaller sports like baseball with coach Chris Wells and basketball with Greg Elliott, where you have like 15 guys, they are brutal. They know all the kids' teachers.

John Gibbons

First of all, he's been in the organization a long time. Second, he's had a lot of these guys, ... He's a good baseball man, and he's paid his dues. And he's from the South.

Randy Johnson

There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,

There was a little extra bounce in their step. With the hard work they put in ever single day, it makes them feel better to know that they're being rewarded for hard their hard work. The most important thing in baseball is confidence. Obviously when you win, it gives you a little more.

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

There's no real justification for public financing of stadiums. They don't generate economic benefits. They don't help revitalize neighborhoods. The economic research on this is pretty solid. The only studies that show positive effects are the ones commissioned by baseball and people who want a stadium built.

There's no question baseball disrupts the launches of entertainment schedules, ... And beyond ratings, the most important issue for baseball is whether there's a perceived competitor to Fox. But right now I don't see a strong competitor to Fox.

There's no possible way I'd be ready to pitch (in the World Baseball Classic). Trust me, I'd love to have the chance to represent my country, that's everyone's dream to hold the flag. But I would have had to start throwing by mid-December to be in game shape by then and I've just started to throw lightly now.

There's no closer in baseball that's perfect, though we lost one (Gagne) who's as close to being one as there is. Brazoban has done a great job.

Jeff Bagwell

There's no other situation this would be OK. A normal guy, that wasn't going to play. It fit for our situation at the time. It's not something I would advocate. But Roger Clemens is a gift from the baseball gods. Anything he does is a gift. ... Craig (Biggio) and I have never had a ring. Our best opportunity to get one was to have Roger around. He tends to his obligations, his kids. And it's not like the man comes in here and pitches five innings and gives up six every day.

There's no getting around it. We're at a point right now where we need to win a baseball game. There's no sugar-coating it. We've dug ourselves a deep hole.

There's no football practice tomorrow. So I'll be at baseball practice ? I think. I'm just running around everywhere.

There's more of a baseball culture that has developed in other countries. There are quite a few countries where the baseball culture is pretty well developed.