Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chrissie Hynde

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

Chris Pratt

I’ve done all kinds of cool things as an actor—I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.

George V. Higgins

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

George V. Higgins

The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

George Steinbrenner

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

George Steinbrenner

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

George Steinbrenner

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

George Steinbrenner

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

George Steinbrenner

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

George Carlin

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

George Carlin

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

George Carlin

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

George Carlin

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

George Carlin

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

Garth Brooks

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

Garth Brooks

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Garth Brooks

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Gail Simmons

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

Frank Thomas

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

Felipe Alou

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

Fay Vincent

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Fay Vincent

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Evel Knievel

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

James Carville

I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

I wanted someone in this vitally important job who I have selected to lead the team and baseball organization.

I wanted to further my baseball knowledge and learn more about me as a player.

Felipe Alou

I've had guys from everywhere. But the game needs more good players, ... Baseball is an integrated, international game.

Jason Mitchell

I've had to jump over fences in baseball and defenders in football. I've always been pretty good at catching a ball.

Jeff Francis

I've gotten myself into a lot of trouble, more so than when I had success at lower levels. But I've made some pitches when I've needed to, to get out of it. I mean, not always. I've given up my share of runs and hits.

I've got nothing but respect for (Vanderbilt), Coach (Tim) Corbin and his staff. That's an outstanding baseball club over there that we beat tonight. I thought our guys played very well, and having (senior pitcher) Bryan Rider back, obviously it was big to have a guy like that you can throw at the end of games.

Dallas Green

I've encouraged David to get the process started quickly and get it over quickly because baseball doesn't wait around, ... You wait around and things can happen that will set you back.

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.