Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It's called Celebration on Ice. It's got everything from Ricky Martin (music) to football to baseball to cheerleaders to a heartfelt tribute to the city of New Orleans.

It's been just nothing short of spectacular. He's on a roll like I've never seen in college baseball.

It's been unbelievable, when I think of all the experiences I had in baseball, these last few weeks are up there with the most memorable.

It's been disappointing and upsetting to me because of the success I was having. Then I get out here and it looks like I've never played baseball before.

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.

Everyone's excited and everything like that, no question. Whenever you can beat a powerhouse like the USA, it's a feather in baseball Canada's history. We're going to enjoy this, celebrate a little bit, but we do have one other game to play and there's no guarantee that we're going to the next round. We can be happy right now, but we still have a task at hand, and that after an hour or two we will focus on Mexico.

Everyone at Carolina is extremely grateful to the Steinbrenner family. We are fortunate that his family has enjoyed its relationship with the University of North Carolina and that Mr. Steinbrenner felt the Tar Heel baseball program was a worthy recipient of this unique and generous gift.

Everybody is excited to see him on the field in a uniform in San Francisco. We all saw a guy that's at some point going to come back and play baseball for us.

Jake Peavy

Everybody now sees how good international baseball is. It's going to be a long three years waiting for this to come around again.

Michael Strahan

Everybody's professional. Nobody's an idiot. Nobody's a jerk. We all know each other. So it's not like we see each other in the city and we run over and bust the window out of their car with a baseball bat or nothing. We're all friends.

Everybody's eyes were glued to this auction. It is the Holy Grail of baseball cards. It is the Mona Lisa. There's nothing else like it.

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.

Jamie Martin

They don't actually get it. They don't keep up with baseball, so they don't know (about Johnson and Maddux). They're two bright girls, but when it comes to baseball they're clueless.

They had a very good inning and scored a bunch of runs. They are a very good baseball team.

Jason Hanson

They had a good baseball season and he was a big part of it. I was hoping the team's success would carry over into basketball season.

Don Baylor

They feel they can get right to the NBA, compared to four years in the minors and maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. I don't know if there's a lot of parents directing their kids to play baseball these days.