Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to fight his way out of it. A guy like that is just too good a baseball player ... We knew it was just a matter of time before he figured it out, and he did.

Doug Ferguson

We knew coming into this game that we were going to have to play near-perfect baseball because they're so fundamentally sound, and we didn't do that. But this (tournament) was a good experience for us.

It would have been the same if he had been from Buffalo or Cincinnati. The same kind of issues would come up. He was a working-class kid born to ethnic parents. He was gay. He was not comfortable playing baseball with the boys.

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.

Hideki Matsui

The Yankees had their reasons for not wanting me to play. Major League Baseball had its reasons for wanting me to play. But at the end of the day, what was important to me is to win a championship ring with the Yankees.

E. B. White

The Yankees are in many ways the Manchester United of baseball, ... And vice-versa. They dominate their sports completely at the moment.

Manny Acta

They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It's even more important now.

The whole steroids issue is just a blight on baseball. I think baseball brought it on themselves. They were the last ones to really put into place any kind of comprehensive testing program. As it is, people still think it falls far short of what it should be.

Clint Hurdle

They all got themselves in real good baseball shape coming in. That's what you like to see the most.

The world has been waiting for this day. We've done it not only for the world but for Cuba, to show the world baseball is baseball.

Ron Villone

The World Baseball Classic is a great idea. After all these years waiting to be a Yankee, I think I'm just going to step away from that and concentrate on being here. I've probably got to look out for myself, my family and the Yankees. They come first.

Theo Epstein

The schedule says we play at the end and the standings say we're pretty close and those games will matter, ... Both teams have survived the toughest division in baseball and whoever wins the series will probably get into the playoffs. They might be the only one.

Jerry Smith

There's always been that in baseball. You have different people that see different things. Some people grade it tough and some people are very lean. That's why you see some kids hitting.600 and some hitting.300. Some people go by Major League Baseball that if it's close it's an error. Some people say if they put the bat on the ball it's a hit.

I've seen a lot of players over the years with great baseball tools and good instincts, ... But this kid is something special. He does things nobody else can do.

I've wanted to be a baseball player since I saw my first game when I was 5. I like having a uniform on my back.

I've tried to make a film about love and pride. Baseball became the love for these young men, and therefore we feel all of their ups and downs.

I've never played with a better baseball player than Taylor Harbin. His baseball instincts, his savvy on the field are the best I've ever seen.

I've put a baseball uniform on every spring since I was five years old. I'm 43 now. It's going to be different not being out here. This decision, I feel like it's best for my family, and it will provide some new challenges that I'm looking forward to.

To imagine baseball getting involved is not far-fetched. How the involvement will end up looking is not yet determined.

Theo Epstein

This year, for a lot reasons and for a lot of teams, has been an exercise in survival. Getting past the attrition of a long year for a lot of different reasons. We both survived in probably the toughest division in baseball to get to a point where whomever wins that series will probably get in. It doesn't matter how we got here. It's what we do the rest of the way.

Mark Ellis

This year, all I need to do is prepare for the season. I'm ready to play baseball.

When you play a really good baseball team and get seven errors in an inning, you should lose worse than 12-4.

When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed that nothing went our way. We put ourselves into some good situations and didn't capitalize.

When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

Freddy Sanchez

We've received tremendous support from some of the greatest fans in baseball this week. They're excited, and we're excited to get the season started.

Frank Robinson

What am I going to say to him? How to handle himself? Swing a bat, be successful and drive some runs in tonight. That's how I want him to handle himself. Other than that, I don't feel I have to go in and talk to him about how to handle himself on a baseball field.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don't get paid for doing this. We deserve a high place in baseball because we do this with sacrifice, with human value and courage and sportsmanship, and because we give our utmost in order to come to the field and show what good baseball is all about.

We tend to make a bigger issue out of opening day.

We talked about how you can leave no doubt at the end of the game. We had two batters today that I was really disappointed in how we pitched. One of them was the first inning, and then, the golden rule of baseball you don't walk the tying run on base and bring the winning run to the plate. We did that, but other than that we did extremely well.

Tommy John

We talked about baseball and how it has changed in the minor leagues. Since I played, the change is just phenomenal. The growth in minor league baseball is outstanding.