Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ichiro Suzuki

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

Ichiro Suzuki

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

Harry S Truman

May the sun never set on American baseball.

Harry S Truman

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

Nate Silver

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Nate Silver

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

Nate Silver

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

Nate Silver

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Nate Silver

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Kate Chopin

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.

Ken Harrelson

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Ken Harrelson

You got to be bad before you're good.

Ken Harrelson

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

Ken Harrelson

The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.

Keith Olbermann

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Katie Uhlaender

There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

Kristen Bell

I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat.

Ken Burns

No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

Tom Glavine

There's always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances,

There's two weeks left, I still don't know what's going to happen. The only thing I can do is keep playing baseball and have fun.

At a time when not many people were coming to the park, Ron took over and built this into the successful business it is now. Everybody who loves baseball and enjoys coming here should be thankful to Ron McKee.

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that's baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd give wrestling a shot.

Joe Torre

At a charity event, Bernie sat in with James Taylor and played with him. He's an artist. Bernie doesn't have baseball instincts like a lot of other players. Instincts, you're not born with. He's got to digest and calculate. He works extremely hard.

Tom Glavine

As much as I love hockey, very rarely can I sit down and watch a game on TV from start to finish. I can do that with a baseball game, a football game. I just don't know what it is.

All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become somewhat of a recluse. A lot of his baseball friends had tried to get him out of the house. It's just a sad commentary on the effects of chronic depression.

Absolutely. I think Minnesota is arguably, as a small market club, one of the finest organizations in baseball -- or at least a photo finish with one or two other franchises.

A basketball or a baseball or a football will all break a window in different ways.

Michael Eisner

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Randy Johnson

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

Randy Johnson

Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

Rafael Palmeiro

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

Rafael Palmeiro

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.