Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Jim Bouton

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bunning

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Jesse Ventura

Marijuana is to rock and roll what beer is to baseball, so imagine if they took away beer at the ballgame.

Jay Mohr

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Jay Mohr

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

Jay Hernandez

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Jay Leno

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

Mike Quade

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

Mike Quade

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

Kurt Russell

Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer.

Kurt Russell

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

Kirk Ferentz

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

Mike Scioscia

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

Mike Schmidt

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

Mike Schmidt

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Darnell

Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

Mike Ditka

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

Jerry Bruckheimer

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

Jerry Coleman

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

Jerry Coleman

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Jerry Coleman

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

Gerald R. Ford

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

Gerald R. Ford

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

Gerald R. Ford

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Jim Jarmusch

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I call it a barnstorming tour. Taking it to communities all over the country, introducing many folks to Negro Leagues baseball for the first time.

I don't look at Smith-Wills as competition. It's served a great purpose. It's the reason we first got pro baseball in the area. I like tradition. But it's like having an old car. At some point, you have to get a new car and move forward. It's that way with stadiums.

Denis Leary

I'd object. And like a baseball manager, he'd come right back at me.

I do feel regret and feel sorry that they're not here because it is wonderful baseball what you see in the U.S..

Carlos Delgado

Come on, this is baseball, ... There is no job security here.

I believe Chris will be fully healthy for baseball season. And I know he still has a shot at a Division I baseball scholarship. But he has to be patient, especially in this sport, and that hasn't always been one of Chris' strengths.

John Smoltz

I beg to differ. One through five, they're as good as most people. I don't know if there's going to be a better division in baseball in terms of playing these guys 18 times.