Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Smith

Hopefully our game will do for mid-major conferences, what we hope it will do for all of college baseball, which is get more fans in the seats and watching on TV. We know how exciting college baseball is, and hopefully after gamers play 'MVP '06,' they will too.

Hopefully, it will be a learning experience. It was not the best conditions, be we're too good of a baseball team to play like we did.

Brian Cashman

Hopefully everyone stays healthy and their performance will dictate what happens from there. Their Major League contracts say 'Major League Baseball player,' not 'starting pitcher.' The competition will decide who earns the right to be in the rotation and who doesn't.

He's very quick, has a good bat and a great arm. It's nice to come and see him grow up as a person and a baseball player.

Joe Nichols

Being in the studio with Dolly was like a baseball fan getting to play catch with Mickey Mantle.

Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.

Ned Yost

Before he came to Spring Training, he strained it a little bit. He slightly re-injured it in the World Baseball Classic. He came back and was feeling all right, but he slid into first the other day and kind of tweaked it again.

Bud Selig

His distinct voice was a comfort to a generation of baseball fans in New England and throughout the country.

His favorite thing is watching the Cleveland Indians. All he has to hear is the Fox Sports Indians music and the announcers and he worms his way over to the television faster than you'd think is possible. I tried getting him to watch other baseball games but he wouldn't have anything to do with them. I wonder if it's the music or the voices or what....

He would show up at practice early and stay late. He was that crazy about the game of baseball.

But if he continues to develop as a baseball player, come June 7 (the day of the baseball draft), there's still a chance. He'll have a tough decision.

Brian Cashman

Before we progress, we want the specialist to make sure there's nothing we're not missing. We're not going to do anything until the back specialist has a chance to give his opinion, tell us there's nothing going on.

Harrison Ford

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Harrison Ford

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

Gerry Hunsicker

Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.

Gerry Cooney

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

Harry Callahan

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

Harry Caray

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

Harry Caray

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

Harry Caray

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Harry Caray

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Harry Caray

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

Harry Caray

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Harry Caray

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Harry Caray

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

Harry Caray

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

I never thought I could get a state title in baseball and somehow not get one in tennis. After the season ended, I thought, heck I'll end my baseball career with a state championship and go back to tennis and see if I can duplicate that.

I'm very proud of him, ... For me, personally, he's certainly one of our very best stories and one of the best baseball stories we've had. I'm always impressed by guys who beat long odds. When you hear these stories of guys who were undrafted as juniors and have beaten the odds by long shots, I think they're great stories.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm very excited just to meet with him and talk baseball with him. He's an experienced winner and he comes from a great organization that knows how to win. I think he's going to put that personality and that feeling in our locker room, so it's a good choice.

Derek King

I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat and I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom,

Gary Sheffield

I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.

Ian Snell

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

Carlos Lee

I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.