Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.

Chauncey Billups

It's really not that big of a deal to me. Just having a record like that is, but I wasn't really around, I don't know too much about that baseball thing.

Chad Cordero

Any time you have a chance to go out there and play for your country, it's a big deal. You always want to go out there and represent the USA the best you can, especially since baseball is out of the Olympics and this is basically our Olympics.

Any time you play at home you have an advantage, but this year especially with our fans showing up and supporting us. That makes the players more comfortable and we have played a lot of good baseball at home this year.

Zach Duke

So far it's been pretty good to me. It's such a fun place to play. It's just a good place as a baseball player to come.

Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution. His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.

Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution, ... His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.

Around our busy, busy lives that are so tied up living in metropolitan areas, we forget that there are not streets and roads and baseball fields everywhere. The Nature Center helps to reconnect people with nature beyond their own lawn.

The kids played hard this year. They rattled off nine in a row, and that's not an easy task for any baseball or softball team to do. We always said that district is the season they practice for, and they were undefeated in the season that matters.

Theo Epstein

This year, for a lot reasons and for a lot of teams, has been an exercise in survival. Getting past the attrition of a long year for a lot of different reasons. We both survived in probably the toughest division in baseball to get to a point where whomever wins that series will probably get in. It doesn't matter how we got here. It's what we do the rest of the way.

Mark Ellis

This year, all I need to do is prepare for the season. I'm ready to play baseball.

When you play a really good baseball team and get seven errors in an inning, you should lose worse than 12-4.

When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed that nothing went our way. We put ourselves into some good situations and didn't capitalize.

When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

Freddy Sanchez

We've received tremendous support from some of the greatest fans in baseball this week. They're excited, and we're excited to get the season started.

Frank Robinson

What am I going to say to him? How to handle himself? Swing a bat, be successful and drive some runs in tonight. That's how I want him to handle himself. Other than that, I don't feel I have to go in and talk to him about how to handle himself on a baseball field.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don't get paid for doing this. We deserve a high place in baseball because we do this with sacrifice, with human value and courage and sportsmanship, and because we give our utmost in order to come to the field and show what good baseball is all about.

We tend to make a bigger issue out of opening day.

We talked about how you can leave no doubt at the end of the game. We had two batters today that I was really disappointed in how we pitched. One of them was the first inning, and then, the golden rule of baseball you don't walk the tying run on base and bring the winning run to the plate. We did that, but other than that we did extremely well.

Tommy John

We talked about baseball and how it has changed in the minor leagues. Since I played, the change is just phenomenal. The growth in minor league baseball is outstanding.

We just love baseball. We cheer when the other team makes a great play. We don't care. In St. Louis, it's all about baseball. And when it's over for the year, now that's something to be sad about.

Roger Kahn

A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.