Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I think Ohio State fans have done a great job creating an extremely positive atmosphere. I can't believe it is the 10th season.

Ichiro Suzuki

Because I love baseball. That is the No. 1 motivation. What I do is just come here to perform.

Everybody in baseball marvels at what Greg does. He's such a complete pitcher, such a great pitcher. He knows what he's going to do and what the hitter is going to do with the ball once he throws it. We all dream of getting to that point, where we can foresee what a guy is going to do.

Every boy in town played baseball when I was a kid, where now you can tell the interest is really not there in all the kids like it used to be.

Al Gallagher

Everybody forgets Brandon hadn't played baseball in two years (before joining the T-Bones). He should just be a junior in college.

Every game he pitches, it's like the World Series for the other team. For some of them, it could be the height of their baseball career facing a guy like that.

Ozzie Guillen

Every manager in baseball does what I did. The day after you clinch, you play your bench guys. (Atlanta manager) Bobby Cox does it and he's a genius. I do it and everybody says I don't know what I'm doing.

Dan Peters

It stings that their high school season is over, but the past two years, we made the playoffs and won a district championship. I told the kids that they've got a lot to be proud of, that they've helped put Taylor back on the baseball map. I told them not to focus on what happened today, but to be proud of what you did in your career. I'm very proud of that core of players.

Jimmy Rollins

It's time to play winning baseball. We know where we want to go.

It's not what you want to do. You want to play baseball and be on the field. It's not fun. I feel fortunate I got through it in time to start the season.

It's obviously nice to have him back. I think the bottom line with Jeff is he's a baseball player from head to toe. He's starting to learn how to play the game, and he does a lot of things to help us win.

It's the Canada/U.S. thing. In international play, the U.S. is always favored in a sport. It seems that every time Canada plays the U.S., it's always a huge rivalry. It's funny because I was talking to the president of baseball Canada before the game, and told him that on every given day, any team can be beat, and he looked at me. He said he was crying at the end of the game. Stuff happens.

Travis Hafner

It's the part of baseball that (stinks). You can form some great friendships with teammates, and in an instant, they're gone.

Todd Wagner

It's the beginning of a very slow process. It's like throwing the first pitch in a nine-inning baseball game.

Jack Evans

It's kind of ironic. It was harder to keep baseball than it was to get baseball.

It's more than strange, it's disturbing. Baseball was the sport growing up in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers were everybody's life. Then, all of a sudden, they're leaving. They're going to a foreign place. I was angry. I never lost that anger.

Alex Rodriguez

It just doesn't get any better this. This is the best time of my life, the most fun time in my baseball career. I don't remember a race like this since I've been around.

It just depends on his command and how he's feeling, as far as how long he'll stay there. We want him healthy.

It's always a great game between North Salem and Sprague. Chris does a great job with the fundamentals. To me, that's just the game of baseball, and Chris is a baseball guy. He respects the game, and the kids learn that through him.

Jared Leto

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

Ernie Banks

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

Ernie Banks

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Ernie Banks

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

Jason Giambi

Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

Jason Giambi

People ask me, What would you be doing without baseball? I don't know...super-sizing fries?

Mike Quade

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

Mike Quade

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

Miguel

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

Kurt Russell

Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer.

Kurt Russell

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

Hanley Ramirez

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

Frank Zappa

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.