Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Wakefield

After playing the Yankees and coming here, we're the most important team in baseball right now,

The most significant in Canadian baseball history, the finishing touch to Stern's inside-the-park homer. It was a drive which brought the Dream Team to its knees.

The most important thing is that baseball and the sport won. The quality of Cuban baseball was demonstrated.

Frank Zappa

Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon

Tim Dorsey

Somebody pinch me. Cardinals baseball is an institution. It is St. Louis.

Johnny Damon

So there's not much comfort right now. We know we have to go play good baseball or we know our season is going to be over.

Bob DuPuy

November does not work at all. Not a single one of the 16 baseball federations involved expressed the view that November was a better time.

Not withstanding his protestations from time to time, Jerry is and has been one of the elite power sources in baseball for decades. And that is even truer now.

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

The more live pitching we'll see, the better we'll get. That was a big hit Freeman had for us. We had a couple of mental breakdowns and looked kind of sloppy, but we haven't played in four or five days. That happens. Tomorrow we'll see good pitching and a really good baseball team.

Tommy Lasorda

Do you know how many countries are represented in the Olympics, and how many sports, and how many athletes? ... A lot. A lot. But no Americans in baseball? Why? Why? It's sad. Very sad.

John Roberts

delivered what may have been the shortest opening statement by a modern Supreme Court nominee less than seven minutes, including the thank-yous and two baseball metaphors.

Coach Powell came to help me in 1998 when he retired from teaching. He has been a great help to me ever since, and this baseball program as well as this community are very blessed to have him here to help guide these young men when they are in high school.

Coach Hill demands a lot of his players. He's a great coach and a great baseball guy.

Coach does a great job of keeping us loose, and we just rally around that. We're just having a lot of fun. We play baseball in practice, he sings, he dances ...

Despite the public assurances of Major League Baseball officials, we have questions about the effectiveness of its new drug policy.

They're not the hottest team in baseball right now, like they were.

Pat Murphy

They're not going to be intimidated. I don't know. I have no idea. They have kids from Southern California - heck, the best baseball in the country, probably.

Tony Gwynn

They haven't gotten to that point where baseball is the most important thing in their lives. They got other things going on and as a coach, you have to step back and let them live their lives, let them do things that they have to do and at the same time trying to get them focused playing winning baseball.

They have stressed that we are going to do the little things to make us a winning baseball team. I am eager to see that happen. There is more than hitting and pitching to playing good baseball. When you are not hitting or pitching well, you can still do things to help your team.

Tom Glavine

There's always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances,

There's two weeks left, I still don't know what's going to happen. The only thing I can do is keep playing baseball and have fun.

At a time when not many people were coming to the park, Ron took over and built this into the successful business it is now. Everybody who loves baseball and enjoys coming here should be thankful to Ron McKee.

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that's baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd give wrestling a shot.

Joe Torre

At a charity event, Bernie sat in with James Taylor and played with him. He's an artist. Bernie doesn't have baseball instincts like a lot of other players. Instincts, you're not born with. He's got to digest and calculate. He works extremely hard.

Tom Glavine

As much as I love hockey, very rarely can I sit down and watch a game on TV from start to finish. I can do that with a baseball game, a football game. I just don't know what it is.

All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become somewhat of a recluse. A lot of his baseball friends had tried to get him out of the house. It's just a sad commentary on the effects of chronic depression.

Absolutely. I think Minnesota is arguably, as a small market club, one of the finest organizations in baseball -- or at least a photo finish with one or two other franchises.

A basketball or a baseball or a football will all break a window in different ways.

They put constant pressure on the other team, ... It's a very difficult style of baseball to compete against.

A lot of people can see when there's a problem, ... But not too many people can see a problem, figure out how to solve it, then actually go out and do it. Jim is one of those people. He is a very special baseball man.

A lot of people are scared off from fantasy baseball because they think it's strictly for stats geeks. It's hurt the growth. It should have grown at the same rate. We want to change that perception.

Kevin Millar

A lot of guys do stuff off the field. As a baseball player, and that's what it's about, I would love to see him in the Hall of Fame before he dies. Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Everybody wanted to play like Pete Rose.