Famous Quotes & Sayings

It would be just like baseball. It would have been very easy for him to say, 'I have the largest market and I don't want to share.' Which is what we have going on right now. We do have a group who believes the reason they have success is they're so much smarter than everyone else. I'm not begrudging them for having that thought, but they have to understand where it all came from and why.

Jacques Audiard

It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,

Joe Torre

Things like that happen. That's why baseball is so unpredictable. You don't play it by the clock. You can't freeze the ball. You have to get every single out, and every single one of those outs, especially the last five or six, are very tough to get.

Things just got away from us. Things like that happen in baseball. We've got to bounce back from this and get better.

Brian Sabean

What that means in the greater scheme of things, I'll know more tomorrow. The knee was tolerant. He was sore in the obvious places, being the hands and upper torso. It's a good first step toward getting back to baseball activities. ... I'm presuming it's a baby-step type of thing.

We went from a softball field to a real baseball field. It's a pitcher's ballpark. They can throw with a little confidence now.

Ron Gardenhire

We won one game here. We didn't quit, we didn't lay down. We just didn't play great baseball here. The guys are trying. You're facing a team that's hungry.

Ozzie Guillen

We showed White Sox fans and everybody in baseball that we weren't happy with just what we did last year.

Johan Santana

We showed what Latin baseball was all about. We showed the passion of the game.

We are certainly pleased with the decision by the jury stating that we were not in breach of the existing lease with the city and, in fact, are in compliance with the lease. This was a business dispute. We worked through the 2005 season and we've worked on the World Baseball Classic. We just reached a point where we didn't agree.

Dave Roberts

We expected to win this division, we said it from day one, and we want to go far in the playoffs. We're worried about ourselves playing better baseball because if we don't, we're not going to fare too well in the post-season.

Marcus Camby

We don't want any champagne. None of that stuff like they do in baseball. Just a quick acknowledgment. We have a bigger picture. We want to get a ring.

We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.

Ron Gardenhire

We're going through enough in our situation here with Puck and the whole package, and then this comes back out and starts punching baseball in the head. It's not much fun to see again. I thought we were past that era.

Jason Giambi

Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

Jason Giambi

People ask me, What would you be doing without baseball? I don't know...super-sizing fries?

Mike Quade

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

Mike Quade

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

Miguel

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

Kurt Russell

Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer.

Kurt Russell

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

Kirk Ferentz

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

Nicholas Sparks

How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have your answer.

Muddy Waters

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

Mark Walter

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

Mark Walter

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be,

Mark Buehrle

Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

Mark Buehrle

Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.

Mickey Mantle

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Mickey Mantle

What did you say, Joe?

Mickey Mantle

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Mickey Mantle

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

Mickey Mantle

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.