Famous Quotes & Sayings

These fans have been behind us all year, and now we're giving back to them by playing good baseball.

The story of Latinos in baseball, to a large degree was started in Tampa. There was some in Key West, but it really began to flourish in Tampa.

Ron Gardenhire

The story has always been with him that he's a sloppy practice guy, but a good game guy. He's gotten better at his practice now, and a lot of people talked to him about that, working on some drills. He's grown up a little bit and made his presence known this year in camp.

The soccer side will be heavily involved in camps. Baseball will have an everyday presence.

The sports hall in Chicago is a great facility, and Joe is an icon in the Italian-American community there. Chicago is such a great baseball town, so it made perfect sense to bring the items to the city.

The boys today, they play little baseball outside organized practices and things like that.

Avery has worked extremely hard. We're just trying to create some offense. He has won an opportunity to play. He's a baseball player. He's the kind of guy I like to be around.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Ron Gardenhire

As long as I'm running this baseball team, we will play this game with respect.

That's why I have a hard time believing the season will be canceled. The owners are smart businessmen. If it gets canceled, you don't even know how long it'll last because I doubt anything would happen over the summer. I think the players understand hockey isn't baseball or football or basketball. But I don't know where it goes from here.

Ron Gardenhire

That's your shining light right now. Maybe this is a cure all. Maybe we'll come home and play better baseball. Sometime we are going to have to figure out a way to play better on the road, too, but first come home and play good baseball and then go from there.

That's just love coming out. He's just happy to be on the baseball field. He's been out long enough. For him to take this gig -- he didn't have to -- that shows his love for the game. When the love of the game calls you, you're going to find a way to get back into it.

That's just baseball. The way we came out today, you can't explain it. A couple of hits went our way, and it turned into a big game for us.

That's not in the cards, for the same reason a baseball player doesn't have the same bat as any other player. It's personal equipment suited to each player.

Tim Hudson

That's how baseball is, ... It's one of those games where I didn't pitch good enough and we didn't hit good enough. The young guy over there did a great job.

Geoff Blum

That's helping me keep my sanity, knowing I faced decent pitchers.

We've got a lot of baseball under our belt, and we felt like we should've won at least one of the two games we lost, if not both. But overall, we're pretty well pleased.

We've got a great coaching staff and it's an honor to be in such a classy community that cares so much about its baseball team. We want to represent the Smoky Bear nation with pride.

We will be operating business as usual. There is no change for our 2006 plans, on the business or baseball side.

Alfonso Soriano

We have a day off tomorrow and will think about the baseball we've played the last two weeks. After that, we'll get back to baseball.

We had three kids over .300 and nobody over .400. That's not great for high school baseball. We had to always hope for a pitcher to come up with a great game so we could stay in the game, and most of the time that didn't happen.

This was fun. The sitting president to come out and throw the first ball? That's a great honor for your baseball team, your fans, your city, your region. That doesn't happen very often. First time in 130 years it happened here. It's something we were proud of and wanted to go without a hitch and it certainly did.

This was extreme circumstances,'' said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball.

Those steals are a product of our press. I'm kind of like a center fielder in baseball. I'm reading the point guard and anticipating. With the exception of the second quarter, we played great defense.

This team is probably the loosest I've played on. Coach does a great job of keeping us loose. We play baseball at practice. He dances, claps, sings, and we all rally around that. There was no tension around the team.

Livan Hernandez

This team is excited, ... You play baseball like that. A lot of teams, the Marlins play like that and enjoy the game. This team is the same way.

Ichiro Suzuki

This was the most humiliating day of my baseball career.

This was such a big game. This is what Florida State baseball is all about. It was so much fun. What else can I say?

Dave Roberts

This was a very big game for us. We don't want to scoreboard watch too much, but we knew the Giants had won (in Washington). Jake is our staff ace, and he is our stopper. When he takes the mound, we expect to win baseball games.

Paul Brooks

We have a baseball-rich tradition in the community and have a pretty good group of players out.

Bernie Sanders

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Bernie Sanders

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting.

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to hit one. We knew he was going to hit more than one. We expect him to hit one every time he comes to the plate, and that's a good feeling even if he doesn't do anything. The anticipation gets everyone on their toes. What we need to do now is get him into good baseball shape, which he is not in now.