Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hank Aaron

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Hank Aaron

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

Hank Aaron

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Hank Aaron

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

Hank Aaron

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

Hank Aaron

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

Hank Aaron

In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

Hank Aaron

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Hank Aaron

I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

Hank Aaron

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

Hank Aaron

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

Hank Aaron

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Barry Bonds

He told me, ... to get all I could get out of the game of baseball.

He's a poster boy for Major League Baseball. We got our lead guy and it's a great thrill for the organization.

He's an excellent baseball player, that's what he has shown me. He's very intriguing to me.

He's a guy who as long as he wants a job in baseball is going to have one. He's a good person, he knows the game of baseball and can teach it. Hopefully, that's down the road because he has a lot of playing left in him.

Marc Bulger

He said that eventually there could be some arthritis. I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.

Marc Bulger

He said that eventually there could be some arthritis, ... I think he told me Jim Edmonds (of the baseball Cardinals), and some other guys had some surgery - they just take a little bit of your collarbone off. It's not a big deal, but that's not something you can prevent. But from the MRI and the X-rays, everything's stable right now.

He's an outstanding manager, one of the best in baseball.

He's a no-nonsense guy. He knows what's going on in baseball. He wanted to get what we thought about the players.

(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.

Get him out of that suit and you'd be surprised at how many people don't recognize him -- especially if he's in jeans, a baseball cap and sunglasses, which is what he normally wears on his day off.

Billy Wagner

Gerry is a solid baseball man. He knows what he's doing.

Good pitching, good defense and timely hitting. That's what wins baseball games. We got everything today. A classic.

George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Gene Autry

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

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.

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.