Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm hopeful the fans come streaming back. It's time for the fans to step up to the plate and watch this exciting baseball club.

I'm honored to be coaching one of the premier baseball programs in the country.

I'm having a great time. It's obviously fun, but I don't think about baseball when I'm in bed. I think about how I'm able to breathe, how I'm able to sleep.

I like what he's doing, and I really like his work ethic. He has good baseball instincts and he's made a very good impression.

David Wright

I'll be sitting in bed tonight thinking about the crowd and the energy today. That's what New York baseball is all about. This is what I want to experience in October.

Wayne Gretzky

I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.

I'm anticipating pandemonium. I'm anticipating a dogfight. It will be the most intense baseball series I've ever been part of.

I'm anticipating pandemonium, ... I'm anticipating a dogfight. It will be the most intense baseball series I've ever been part of.

I'm as frustrated as I've ever been in coaching. Baseball starts with pitching and ends with pitching, and we didn't get any.

Jesse Palmer

I'm an athlete, ... I'm a baseball player.

Bobby Valentine

If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don't know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn't be in the decision-making process to begin with.

I only became a fan of baseball when I was 14.

I had a feeling in spring training that this team had the potential to go all the way. We have the best pitching staff in Japanese baseball and our batting order is strong from top to bottom.

Tom Selleck

I had a fantasy of being a pro baseball player, and I've gotten to play a Major League Baseball player (in 1992's 'Mr. Baseball'). I loved Westerns as a little kid and I get to do them. I even get to die as an actor and then you just go home and have dinner. It's great. So now, I'm not a candidate, but I play one on TV and I'll be home for dinner.

Mark Buehrle

I like to get out in the woods as much as I can to get my mind away from baseball and kind of get away from everything. It's nice to get out there and listen to everything, the wildlife and the smells.

Ted White

I just think we've been hurt with weather. We always know it's going to be stormy in the springtime, but I can't remember there ever being so much snow. ... I'm just looking forward to it being sunny and feeling like baseball season.

I just put my head down and played hard. Every pitch, every at-bat, I concentrated on playing baseball.

I remember one time I saw Tommy Lasorda throw out the first pitch for a game and with all his baseball experience, playing and managing, didn't even get the ball to the plate. I want to get the ball to the catcher and not dribble it up there.

I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college.

I love situations like that. That's why I play baseball, to try to come into big situations and come through. If there's any situation like that, I love it.

I'll take some great things from baseball, but the people I've met and the experiences I've had in college, I'm going to miss it quite a bit.

I look at the culture of baseball and its influence on society and society?s influence on baseball.

I look at it this way, everybody wants to manage because it's the greatest job in baseball. But if you can't manage, being the bench coach of the Yankees is the best job in baseball.

I'll make that trade every day of my career. We're a much better baseball team having this problem than not having this problem at all.

Kevin Millar

I'll tell you what, it's a huge loss for the Red Sox. Personally I think Theo was very, very smart and intelligent about understanding baseball players, understanding what kind of team to bring in and what group of guys could gel together. I think he's proven that for three years that he was there. We won a championship, we won 95 games three straight seasons. He's been tremendous for myself personally. I wish him the best of luck, I'm sure he'll have a lot of takers out there.

Penny Marshall

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I know him to be a really quality baseball man. I'll guarantee you, he knows the game.

Robinson Cano

I know he loves his fastball, ... So I just said, 'OK, I'm looking for fastballs.'

Derek Jeter

I know I said it last year, but winning the Gold Glove for the second consecutive season is extremely gratifying. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games,

Dontrelle Willis

I just got off the phone with my mother and she was just yelling and screaming. I can't blame her. When your son is a 24-year-old millionaire, regardless of whether he's throwing a baseball or working for Donald Trump, it's a beautiful thing.

Jim DeMint

I hope Major League Baseball will take this important moment in baseball history to remove the taint upon the memory of Shoeless Joe and appropriately honor his outstanding baseball accomplishments,

Jacque Jones

I hit down there every year. It's not a big deal. That's where I do my baseball stuff, that's where I do my weight lifting.

Alan Trammell

I hope I get to continue with this because there is some unfinished business. I'm going to be in baseball for many more years, whether it is here or not. I'm not done. I'm confident that I can do this.