Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ozzie Guillen

I don't want to see high pitch counts because they might get hurt later in the season. Last year, they played another month of baseball that they never did before. I'm trying to keep the pitch counts low to keep them fresh. If you throw 130-140, in the end you'll pay. Don't overdue it.

Pat Riley

I don't want to get the paddle out or the baseball bat out, but they know what I want.

Ron Gardenhire

I don't want to talk J.C, we're talking Twins baseball. Me and J.C. are fine. We've done our business.

Ozzie Guillen

He's one of the best right-handed hitters I've ever seen in my life. His numbers talk for themselves. From the first day he came into the league, he created something new for the White Sox and baseball -- the numbers he put up, that many home runs, that many walks, you don't see that a lot. The consistency was outstanding, really professional. Day in and day out he produced and he was fun to play with, fun to watch hit.

Jason Phillips

He's one of the best in all of baseball. He showed that tonight.

He's got a great arm. I've said several times that it doesn't take a scout or a baseball enthusiast to figure out that he's pretty good. I think he still has some things he needs to work on to master his craft, but he has two above-average major-league pitches right now. He just needs some fine-tuning.

Ron Gardenhire

How much baseball he has left in him, that's what we'll determine in spring training. As far as going to Plan B, that's not something I've looked at yet. But we've got people here who've played over there before.

He's interested in not just your baseball career, but he's also interested about your life. He seems like a really good guy. I'm just going to love working with him. That type of personality is just what's attractive.

Andrew Zimbalist

He's innovated baseball management. He's shown the way to exploit a big city market by spending heavily on players.

He?s in my office every day talking baseball. It?s great.

I couldn't believe it. Our guys were ready to play to four in the morning if necessary. It was a good, good baseball game.

Milton Bradley

I couldn't be happier. I'm playing major league baseball and having fun. I'm a California guy - it's exciting for me. I wish the Dodgers well, wish their team well.

I compare it to Larry Miller Field. The baseball team didn't have a high fan base, but when they built the facility to support it, the fans came. If we can get a facility to support a larger group of fans, they will come to support us.

I continue to say that nothing will be decided until after the World Baseball Classic. It is a five-horse race between Retirement, Boston, Houston (post May 1), New York, and Texas (alphabetical order except for the lead horse, named Retirement).

Eric Byrnes

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball.

Javier Bardem

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

Hillary Clinton

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Herbert Hoover

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

Herbert Hoover

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

Herbert Hoover

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Herbert Hoover

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

Herbert Hoover

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Herbert Hoover

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Jack Nicklaus

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

Jack Adams

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Before Pearl Harbor, 84 percent of those surveyed said that baseball should continue to be played. Afterward, that number dropped to 66 percent. The majority of the people wanted the sport to be played, but it was obvious that many people had their minds changed by just that one single event.

Larry Lucchino

Certainly Theo is a good friend of all of us, and he's worked very closely with these guys in the past. The door has been really ajar for some time, and until Theo goes to work for another baseball organization we'll keep the light on in the window with the possibility of him coming back and helping us.

Chad has a great arm, and he is very good at reading pitchers. He has worked very hard, and is very baseball mature.

Pat Gillick

Charlie's a good baseball man and he's been around the game for a long time, ... He can evaluate players mentally and physically. A lot of managers can't do that.