Famous Quotes & Sayings

In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

In baseball, you're either moving forward or you're going backward. We're going backward.

In baseball you play every day so you have to be able to bounce back and I am glad that we bounced back and were able to play pretty well.

Livan Hernandez

In baseball, you make one mistake, you can lose the game, ... One mistake.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Choo Freeman

In baseball terms, I guess I am, but I feel welcome here.

In baseball, players don't like being shown up and umpires are professionals and we don't like to be shown up either. When he did it the second time I felt that he should be told in no uncertain terms it wasn't going to be tolerated.

John Smoltz

In baseball history, it'll never be done again, ... We did it in such strange ways every single year.

John C. Reilly

In 'Magnolia,' I had to learn all this police training. In 'For Love of the Game,' I had to perform like a major-league baseball player.

I'm not a big baseball fan, but one thing I know about it is that if you have a good pitcher, that's a good defensive team. If you can stop people, you give yourself a chance to win. I thought we played pretty good defense.

I mean, how do you play winning baseball that way? I challenge players to understand how the game's played.

Jack Morris

I know there's a lot of people who publicly don't want to say this right now. But I think they're hoping that the momentum this occasion brings, and the way it brings the community together, will help extend this to the next step that they all want, which is a new stadium and baseball for a long time.

Johnny Damon

I know this is the greatest moment in my baseball career. We're world champions now. This is a dream come true.

Jason Giambi

I know we like to think baseball is America's game, but that isn't totally true. There are some teams out there that can play this game pretty well.

I know the baseball fraternity were watching at home. It was televised at four this morning. I know a lot of people watched and I can imagine their feelings of joy for what we did.

Phyllis Schlafly

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

Mike Fitzpatrick

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

Jon Stewart

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

Jon Miller

Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

Jon Lester

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

Josh Henderson

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

Joe Posnanski

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

Jack Welch

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

Studs Terkel

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

Steve Earle

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Don Cooper

The level of competition in Cuba isn't the same as it is in the major leagues. It's about Triple-A. Contreras went (to New York) and was expected to win right away and that wasn't realistic.

The last two years we've been hammered by graduation. It's a brand new team, a fresh start. If we get with the program, hopefully we'll play our best baseball in the second half of the league season.

Phil Taylor

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

Peter Lynch

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Peter Lynch

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Prince Fielder

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.