Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Clemens

I'm proud of the way he carries himself out there. But I'd be proud of the way he carries himself if he wasn't playing baseball at all.

I'm proud of them. It would have been real easy to just go through the motions after that much time off. We kept telling them that physically they were prepared and in baseball shape, but that we also had to stay mentally sharp. Tonight, they looked mentally sharp. They came out ready to play.

I'm proud of them, it's been business as usual. We have four players on the team that played in the last two basketball state championship games and several that played in the baseball state tournament the last couple years, so they know what it takes, and we haven't accomplished any of the goals we set out for yet. It's just a reward for the first four games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I'm really proud that I'm only one of two players from Major League Baseball in the final game. I sense MLB is hurting a little bit.

John Buck

I learned the most I've ever learned in one year in baseball, from getting knocked down and getting back up and getting knocked down again. Sometimes that's good for you.

Eric Chavez

I hope we can score five or six runs tomorrow. I hope this will help get our confidence back. There's a lot of baseball left, I hope we can get going again.

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city of Ozark.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jack Morris

I just can't imagine what it would be like here without baseball. I don't even want to think about it. ... I just hope that the last few years - you know, three out of four they were in the playoff hunt - that everybody forgets about that contraction stuff and that some way, somehow, there will be baseball in Minnesota.

I made it. There's a lot of people from the Dominican Republic that don't get this chance. Maybe a couple of guys will play baseball in the major leagues. Not a lot of people get to play football. With this sport I can take care of my family.

I made some pitches I shouldn't make, but I got out of some situations. The key thing is winning. I'd rather have an ugly win than a well-pitched loss.

Ketch Secor

I'm a big baseball fan for sure. I don't know why we started doing it. It was just kind of funny and we always pick out baseball names from my childhood, because that's when the whole baseball reverence happened to me. I guess you could say there is something about old heroes that always makes them worth conjuring up.

I'm a better baseball player now, but my body isn't what it used to be. It's hard getting in the shower sometimes.

I'm a baseball fan, and a longtime Cincinnati Reds fan.

Steve Phillips

I love the World Baseball Classic. I think it's necessary for the game. We need the international players and market to grow the game and maintain the quality of play.

Kyle Farnsworth

I loved that kind of discipline. It would've suited me well if I didn't play baseball.

Sadaharu Oh

I never coached a team for a tournament like this, and never thought the pressure to be so high. Baseball is the best sport. Everyone has to work together. There is nothing more wonderful than that Japanese players did such a wonderful job and showed that to everyone in the world.

I'm sure that both sports offer their own unique challenges when developing young talent. But I think baseball is more of a crapshoot because you're generally looking at a longer time frame in the maturation process of a young prospect.

In football you have to be big, and in basketball you have to have height, but in baseball, if you are a good worker, you'll be OK. This is a game of tradition, and it's important to play it the right way.

That's part of the little things. Tonight we had the one big inning, then we just chipped away. It's sound baseball - moving runners over with less than two outs, scoring runs with sacrifice flies, not giving away at-bats. You aren't going to score every time you do that, but if you do it consistently, good things will happen.

That's part of baseball. I was mad that I wasn't doing well, but I got over it. We've been kind of down (this season), but we've been on track the past few games. We're getting better every game. We'll be ready.

Ron Gardenhire

That's our Achilles' heel all year long. We've got one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and offensively, we just can't support them. That's why we're in the position we're in in our league, our division and this Wild Card race.

That's the farthest he's gone, and I didn't want the game to end for him on a sour note. There's a lot of baseball left.

That injury really got me down. It took a couple of months before I started to feel better, and my spirits picked up when I was able to come back and play baseball last spring.

Phil Garner

That's a good baseball play right there. Biggio was running hard out of the box going to second, so it creates a little diversion there, and Willy was coming hard the whole way.

That last couple of months of high school were beyond belief. The phone calls, the scouts at the parks. Then all of a sudden you're in the Gulf Coast League. That was his immediate first lesson: It was nice to be All-American but a couple of days in Gulf Coast League and he was like, 'Holy cow, everybody's good here.' He figured out pretty quick to leave your ego at the park.

It's like in baseball when you get a hold of one. You don't take any of the absorption, you're giving it all. It's good to get those guys once in a while because they are always trying to get us.

Scott Linehan

It's like in baseball being strong up the middle. You have inside guy, a middle linebacker and a safety. It's a pretty good place to start.

It's nice to get up here and see what major league baseball is all about. I have confidence I can play here. But given the situation that we came into, being in the middle of a pennant race . . . we understood our playing time was going to be kind of sparse.

It's nice to see a baseball trophy next to all the Math County League trophies, up in the corner.

Bob Larson

It's something totally unique that no baseball team has done before.

Ozzie Guillen

It's not going to be like, two-run home run and wait for the closer. It's going to be baseball from the beginning all the way to the end - squeezes, hit-and-run, moving guys over.

Everyone in baseball knows everybody else's business. People know we do business a little different.