Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's pretty unbelievable that Texas is the second largest state in terms of population and that we have only two baseball teams. California has five. I think eventually we will have another team. Whether this is the time or not, I'm not sure. If the voters in San Antonio support it, we certainly would, too.

It's understandable, though. The owners have a lot of money invested in their teams, so they didn't want to take a chance on their players getting hurt or have their season disrupted. It's just a shame that such a popular sport has been eliminated. Hopefully, after that first Olympics without baseball (2012), they'll miss baseball and see that it was a mistake to drop it.

Adam Everett

It's tough when one of your best friends in baseball does it. It's bittersweet.

Johan Santana

It's up to the professionals and the baseball writers to decide who's going to win it, ... I feel like I did my job, and personally, I'm pleased with everything that happened. Unfortunately, we didn't go to the playoffs -- that's what we were looking for.

Brian Sabean

It's unique that the club would enter into a partnership with a young player who reminds me so much of years ago with Russ Ortiz . Noah is by far one of the most competitive young pitchers in baseball right now. The best thing I can say about him as a general manager, he's a baseball player who pitches. ... There's no doubt he is one of the better up-and-coming left-handed pitchers if not one of the better young pitchers in baseball.

Sadaharu Oh

It's unfortunate the play was overruled. It's just unimaginable this could have happened, this did happen, in the United States, where baseball is very famous and very popular.

DAVID Seeds has the only seed containers exhibited in the Baseball Hall of Fame. They are as much a part of today's baseball experience as bats and balls.

Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.

Does it really matter to us? No. We did what we had to do to win the division. I've been on the best team in baseball going into the playoffs and it doesn't matter.

Josh Beckett

Everybody has new jokes. It's a fun time. I don't really know how to explain it. You get to play baseball for a living and get paid very well and you get to have a life. During the season you don't have a life because baseball is all day long. Here it's at the beginning of the day and then I can go play golf every day.

The boss is very protective of the ballpark. He told me in no uncertain terms to view it as a cathedral and don't do anything that would lose the essence of a baseball cathedral.

The biggest reason people cancel season tickets is tickets in the drawer that aren't used, ... With 81 baseball games that's going to happen. This eliminates that; it reduces no-shows for the game and creates more circulation for tickets, more Giants fans.

The biggest obstacle John Rocker would go through is, people think of him as a relief pitcher. If John Rocker was to quit baseball today and go out to manage someone's money, I don't know if they'd want that.

The best thing about baseball is that there are so many situations that can occur. It was a tough loss but I think the guys will be fine. We have a whole lot of games left and I know we have the makeup of an excellent team.

William Goldman

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

St. Helena has a lot of confidence. They're playing good baseball. We had to put a number up in the first inning to put doubt in their mind. I don't know if we necessarily put doubt in their mind but it set the tempo for us.

James Blake

The baseball thing is a joke. Ten games out of a 162-game season for steroids is a joke. Two years is much more of a deterrent. It makes guys realize that you can't get away with it. You can't do this until you get caught and say, 'Oh no, it's not a big deal if I'm only out for three weeks or something.' If you're out for two years, that's a sizeable percentage of your career.

James Blake

The baseball thing is a joke, ... Ten games out of a 162-game season for steroids is a joke. Two years is much more of a deterrent. It makes guys realize that you can't get away with it. You can't do this until you get caught and say, 'Oh no, it's not a big deal if I'm only out for three weeks or something.' If you're out for two years, that's a sizeable percentage of your career.

The baseball team is all about making an environmental stand. That's why it is so important to reuse cardboard.

The baseball players were really the first to dip their toes in the water of integration. It?s an example of a great institution that African-Americans were able to build and sustain, in spite of racism and depression, and because of its success, it helped to open doors and change America.

The baseball people know who he is. He's been good for a while. He's somebody the other coaches in the district know about. He's already making a legacy for himself.

The baseball is going to dictate it. You can't predict not doing well because not everybody's in good shape, so you never know what could happen. We have a good team.

The baseball here is just a lot of fun right now. The kids all love baseball. They love to play it and they love to watch it. They're excited to be a part of this program and they take a lot of pride in it.

The baseball gods owed us one, but I think we earned it, too.

Willie Randolph

The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year. We just seem to make a mistake at the most inappropriate time.

Willie Randolph

The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year, and that was one of the more unusual (plays). I'm still positive about these guys. . . . But it just boils down to learning how to play winning baseball.

Adrian Beltre

take about 10 days where I don't think about baseball at all. Then I'm going to get ready to come back strong next year.

Sun is still a show-me stock. To use a baseball analogy, they just got a base hit in the top of the first inning. It's too early to say Sun is recovering.

It's impossible to get more than one season out of kid's boots. They're too big one year, perfect at baseball season and too small the next year.

It's Coach. He plays baseball during practice, he dances, sings and claps. He keeps us loose.

Joaquin Andujar

There's three words that describes baseball 'You never know.'

Craig Biggio

There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.

Tom Smith

These things have not only been great honors for Josh and his family but for our school and baseball program. Josh had a great summer, in particular, and people took notice. We couldn't be happier for him.