Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Johnson

I had a great time with baseball growing up, ... I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Brad Penny

I had good defense behind me and my off-speed pitch was working OK. I was throwing strikes.

It helps tremendously. The only sport that probably won't get out this week is tennis. There is only so much you can do inside. Baseball has it tougher than softball, they can't even lay out an infield.

I think a group of players has to understand the type of baseball you have to play to play winning baseball. You have to realize the importance of the intangibles, the little things.

I just think it's a good idea. You could have three teams in a very small proximity from one another and which creates more interest and revenue. For baseball operations, they'd have somebody else close to play.

Doug Harvey

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.

I just love being with those kids. They love baseball, and we just have a great time together.

Paul Konerko

I just hope it doesn't change either of their luck or our luck, because we were playing OK. You don't want to screw around with the baseball gods.

I just decided it would be best if I just focus on one sport. The (football) coaches said I could be 100 percent baseball now, and I'm looking forward to that. I haven't had the opportunity, yet. I'm looking forward to the strides I can make this season.

Joe Nichols

Being in the studio with Dolly was like a baseball fan getting to play catch with Mickey Mantle.

Jim Thome

I haven't had any setbacks at all. I'm excited. I called a couple of my buddies the other day and said, 'Man, I'm a baseball player again. Forget this rehab.' Everything's been good.

I haven't had a day off or a weekend off in a while. When football was over, I started basketball the next day. When basketball was over, I went straight into baseball and track. If I haven't had baseball practice, I've had track practice.

I probably haven't faced a lineup like them, but for me, I'm not scared of anybody. They're baseball players just like I am. They put their unis on the same way I do. It's about execution. Today I didn't execute. There's no other excuse for it.

Adrian Gonzalez

I played in Double-A and it was the same level of baseball. There were players who were 30 and 35 years old. They knew the game and I learned a lot.

Alex Rodriguez

I played great baseball for a year, ... I played like a dog for five games.

Alex Rodriguez

I played great baseball all year, ... and I played like a dog the last five days.

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In too many games we played five or six innings of great baseball and then just cruised through the ninth. To be the dominant team we want to be we need to keep the pressure on our opponents every inning.

In the B class it's tough. Most of the schools only do baseball or track. It's a numbers game, we just don't have a lot of students.

If you think you know everything about baseball, your dead wrong!

Tommy Lasorda

If you said to God, 'Create someone who was what a baseball player should be,' God would have created Joe DiMaggio ... And he did.

If you watch a football game or a baseball game, you don't see sportsmanship like this. In fencing you've got to salute your opponent before every match, and you've got to shake hands. These are the rules.

Finn Wittrock

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

Ferguson Jenkins

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Herbert Hoover

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

Herbert Hoover

I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

Catfish Hunter

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

Gabe Paul

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

Gabe Paul

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

Gabe Paul

Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

Gabe Paul

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

Gabe Paul

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

Frank Robinson

Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.