Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jason Bartlett

I know what to expect. I got the butterflies out last year. Now I can go back to playing baseball like I did in the minor leagues.

Chadwick Boseman

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

I knew we were going to struggle offensively early in the spring. There's a reason pros go down and play 30 or 40 exhibition games in the spring. Baseball is a game where you need to see repetition, repetition, repetition.

I like our attitude. We have guys that are very hungry for baseball and they are great kids to work with. They want to learn and are willing to do whatever it takes. Right now, our strengths are our pitching and defense. We need to work on our hitting.

Barry Bonds

I just want to win a championship. I'm playing to win a championship. That's the only thing that keeps me going. ... The only thing keeping me in the game of baseball right now is trying to win a championship for the team, trying to win a championship with a bunch of guys.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm kind of breathtaken. It's historic. It's a beautiful thing, not only for baseball but for my team, ... Hopefully we'll just keep going.

I'm pleased with how we've played so far in the first half. But there's a lot of baseball left to be played.

Impressive. He beat the best team in baseball today.

I'm out driving the kids to hockey or basketball or baseball. It was time for me to do something for myself.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm just out there having fun, ... If I'm not having fun I'm definitely not playing the type of baseball I want to play.

I miss baseball badly, ... If I didn't get some sort of closure, which came with winning the state championship, I'd probably be somewhere playing baseball, too.

Michael Barrett

I'm just a baseball player; I'm not a math major. I'm still not real clear on it. In the event of a three-way tie, it comes down to runs scored, I believe.

I?m so proud of these students. Some play baseball, softball or run for the track team, hold down jobs, have homework assignments each night and they still found time to raise this much money? Words cannot describe just how proud I am of them.

Scott Linehan

I flew back for a weekend so I could catch at least one of my son's baseball tournaments this year. But the whole time, I was on the phone talking to coaches. I literally sat in the stands or in my car ... and was on the phone.

I have no problem with Luna. That's just baseball.

I had to send a couple of guys to look for him. I was more worried about him, his health, than our baseball team.

In Puerto Rico everybody is so excited because they have not seen so many big-league players before. The Latin American countries take a lot of pride in baseball being the national sport. They want to see this because this is so unique. In the United States there are so many games and there is a team in every city.

Tom Glavine

I like to be in a position of helping people. I find it very humbling that, simply by playing baseball, I'm in position to help so many people. I never take that for granted.

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.