Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we had the bases loaded, no outs and were down 9-7, I thought we'd get the two runs. We just didn't execute.

When we first got married, baseball wasn't her favorite sport.

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Jennifer Wilson

What a great day for Red Sox baseball.

Jim Lefebvre

What he's going to do (in the WBC) is show a lot of people that he can compete at a very high level and elevate everyone's opinion of the baseball talent in China. When he's hitting well, he is a fun guy to watch.

Clint Hurdle

We can definitely get used to (having Kim around), because while he's had his trials and tribulations in other areas, he's playing good baseball for us.

We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.

We're going to hustle and we're going to field solidly this season. I believe that we're also going to hit better. We still have some baseball things to learn. Also, we need to make sure that everyone is on the same page this season. We've got great senior leadership on this team. I love all of these kids." ()

Unless the show is a period piece, shouldn't they have reflected the new reality that baseball has returned to D.C.?

Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don't want your team to play a sloppy side of baseball and take things for granted, and we've done that as well.

Edna Ferber

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Edna Ferber

Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

Ben Chandler

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Balthazar Getty

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

Balthazar Getty

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.

We're just not hitting the baseball well. It's just that simple.

Steve Williams

We're fortunate to have a strong group of supportive parents who have done a fine job with field improvements for our baseball program. They're a blessing to us.

With the schedule and the number of games left and the way the teams are matched up, it's going to be a fight the rest of the year. That's the way it should be. That's what this time of year is all about, the excitement of baseball and trying to win the pennant.

We knew they were a great baseball team, and they did everything right to start. They had no walks, no errors and we couldn't run on them, but we've been behind before and that's why you play seven innings. We knew we could come back strong.

Lou Piniella

Uh, look. When you're last in the league in pitching and last in the league in errors, that's not a good combination to win baseball games. We're last in the league in walks. There's a direct correlation between those things.

Don Cooper

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

There are too many baseball games in a season to dwell on one loss. We have to just have a short memory and go on.

Jonny Gomes

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Major League Baseball is very interested in playing games in Europe. We're investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is fortunate to have a man of Jimmie Lee's experience, intellect and dedication already on board to handle such a complex and important position as the chief of our baseball operations. Over the years, he has demonstrated considerable skill in working through the labyrinth of our minor league system. I have great confidence that he will be an enormous success in this key position.

Major League Baseball can't put its head in the sand and do a sound-bite press conference and say everything's going to be fine. Everything's not fine.

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

Ricky Gervais

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

Brian Wilson

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

Brent Musburger

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

Branch Rickey

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.