Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Smith

A lot of major-league stadiums didn't have them. In the last 16 years, obviously, the game has changed dramatically. I guess baseball has become much more of a year-round program for players.

You want this whole environment to be fun for them. You want the game of baseball to be fun. You can have fun and also be involved in a businesslike manner and continue to utilize the techniques that we have been talking about over the course of these four days. You can get something done and have people going into the clubhouse with a good feeling about themselves.

Jason Elam

You want to go out like baseball guys get to do the next night. But you have to wait the whole week, and that's no fun.

David Wright

You've got to be the man to have a major league baseball game stop for you and to have a five-minute tribute and to have five or six curtain calls. That's when you know you've done something. ... It's obviously sad. I saw a tear come from his eye.

All we wanted to do was to show the quality of Cuban baseball.

All we see is football, baseball, soccer, but no basketball. We need to get some trophies of our own.

Luis Sojo

These guys enjoy the competition. They are baseball players -- that's what they do. Because they are representing the country makes it more special. I expect good things. There is a lot of pride for Venezuela.

William Collins

This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance, ... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community.

Adam Everett

This is our home field. If we want to close it, we should be able to close it. That being said, they are Major League Baseball and they have their rule.

This is only the beginning. The best for the Golden Baseball League is yet to come, and we'll be there.

This has been the most important experience of my baseball career. I'm one step closer to the ultimate goal. I just need to stay on an even keel and continue working hard.

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It's a great way for us to start our league play.

Joel Zumaya

This is a great baseball town. I'm 21, so to see a place sold out with everybody into it is unbelievable and fun.

Huston Street

This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've never been around a group of guys that jelled like we did. I'll cherish these six weeks forever.

Bud Selig

This has not only been a historic day in baseball but a very meaningful one.

Jim Edmonds

This, ... has been too big of a deal over one tied baseball game.

Buck O'Neil

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

A loss is a loss and we're going to learn from it. But baseball is a great game. You play three times a week, so you don't have time to dwell on it.

Ron Gardenhire

All he can do is go out and throw the baseball, ... You have to think of where Radke is at. He has been our No. 1 starter for how many years? When you're the No. 1 starter, who are you facing? You're facing the other teams' No. 1, No. 2 starter pretty much the whole year.

A.J. was always around my friends and me. We were always playing tennis, pick-up baseball games, home run derby, anything. We played all kinds of sports. We had a great basketball hoop up in our driveway, too. There was a ton of room. It was perfect.

Enos Slaughter

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

Emo Philips

When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.

Emo Philips

My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

The damage to the soccer field has to be fixed soon, but with the baseball field, we have several months to get it fixed.

Gary Sheffield

You can start out hot, you can start out lukewarm or you can start out cold. If you're a good team, it will show up in the end. And we are a good team. Baseball is played the way it's played - you can't just make something happen.

Jessica Sanchez

You don't have to look very far here at Tinker Stadium to see why tonight's game cannot go on as planned. The Lake Highland Prep baseball coach is disgusted with what he sees. A bathroom in shambles, a grass-less field littered with debris and feces.

John Cheever

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

John Cheever

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

Carlos Lee

You could say that. I get to play with some of the best players in baseball.

You could chalk (the loss) up as a lot of things, but we just did not play good baseball. Why? I don't know. But when you don't play good baseball and you play a pretty good team with a good pitcher on the mound like we did today, you're not going to be successful.

You can't take anything away from Central. This was a great game. It's what high school baseball is all about.

The kid is the smartest baseball player I've ever coached. He has a great instinct and a great feel for the game. He makes things happen for us.

Brian Cox

The (Justin) Upton kid that they signed, their first-round draft pick last year, he is one of those guys. He can do things that physically we're not used to seeing a lot of baseball players do.