Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Elam

You want to go out like baseball guys get to do the next night. But you have to wait the whole week, and that's no fun.

David Wright

You've got to be the man to have a major league baseball game stop for you and to have a five-minute tribute and to have five or six curtain calls. That's when you know you've done something. ... It's obviously sad. I saw a tear come from his eye.

All we wanted to do was to show the quality of Cuban baseball.

All we see is football, baseball, soccer, but no basketball. We need to get some trophies of our own.

Nick Swisher

All you have to do is look at the back of his baseball card and know he'll be all right.

The kid is the smartest baseball player I've ever coached. He has a great instinct and a great feel for the game. He makes things happen for us.

Brian Cox

The (Justin) Upton kid that they signed, their first-round draft pick last year, he is one of those guys. He can do things that physically we're not used to seeing a lot of baseball players do.

Their kids did a better job of making adjustments than ours did. It's baseball in Maine this time of the year and you have to deal with it.

The umpires selected to work the World Baseball Classic are longtime professionals, three of them were members of our full-time staff and many have extensive experience at the Major League level.

Luis Sojo

These guys enjoy the competition. They are baseball players -- that's what they do. Because they are representing the country makes it more special. I expect good things. There is a lot of pride for Venezuela.

William Collins

This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance, ... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community.

Adam Everett

This is our home field. If we want to close it, we should be able to close it. That being said, they are Major League Baseball and they have their rule.

This is only the beginning. The best for the Golden Baseball League is yet to come, and we'll be there.

This has been the most important experience of my baseball career. I'm one step closer to the ultimate goal. I just need to stay on an even keel and continue working hard.

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It's a great way for us to start our league play.

Joel Zumaya

This is a great baseball town. I'm 21, so to see a place sold out with everybody into it is unbelievable and fun.

Huston Street

This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've never been around a group of guys that jelled like we did. I'll cherish these six weeks forever.

Bud Selig

This has not only been a historic day in baseball but a very meaningful one.

Jim Edmonds

This, ... has been too big of a deal over one tied baseball game.

Buck O'Neil

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

A loss is a loss and we're going to learn from it. But baseball is a great game. You play three times a week, so you don't have time to dwell on it.

Ron Gardenhire

All he can do is go out and throw the baseball, ... You have to think of where Radke is at. He has been our No. 1 starter for how many years? When you're the No. 1 starter, who are you facing? You're facing the other teams' No. 1, No. 2 starter pretty much the whole year.

A.J. was always around my friends and me. We were always playing tennis, pick-up baseball games, home run derby, anything. We played all kinds of sports. We had a great basketball hoop up in our driveway, too. There was a ton of room. It was perfect.

Missy Peregrym

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Misty May-Treanor

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

Penny Marshall

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

Penn Jillette

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.

Pee Wee Reese

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

Marlee Matlin

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

Mariano Rivera

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

Mariano Rivera

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

Mariano Rivera

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family,

Marianne Moore

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go...