Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Ditka

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

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.

He can go on his own. I think of all the steals he has this season, I've given him the sign to steal once. He just basically has good baseball instinct. I have no problem with anything he does.

He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When he got to 8 or 9 years old, he was a heck of a basketball player, baseball player. He had drive. He just liked to win. That's his motivation, to win.

Ron Gardenhire

He always busted his tail off and had a great thing to say to everybody in the clubhouse. I can guarantee you all this, as long as I'm running this baseball team, we will play the game with respect, run the ball out and give you a show, because that is what Kirby would want us to do.

He pitched very well. He was hitting his spots and the hits he did give up were not hit solid. As a team we weren't able to manufacture any runs, and it is hard to win baseball games regardless how you pitch, if you don't manufacture any offense.

He pitched through recreation leagues. He has a good, strong arm. We typically are not real crazy moving our shortstop off of shortstop, but we are looking at him as a closer and how he handles that role.

Frank Robinson

He prepared you to go out and play baseball and have an opportunity to win ballgames, ... We were well organized. He knew the rules of the game. He executed the game fundamentally -- offensively and defensively. He could show you both ways. In the infield-fly rule, he would teach you how to do it defensively and offensively.

For the first time, every senior will be a starter. The 2006 edition of the Rogers High baseball team is just like a litter of pups. We are young but they want to learn and they have been fun to be around.

Milton Bradley

For some people, all their life is baseball. All they care about is how many hits they get, how many runs they drive in and how many plays they make. They're just looking for a plaque.

Ishmael Reed

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Irvine Welsh

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Ichiro Suzuki

Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do.

Ichiro Suzuki

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Ichiro Suzuki

I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

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.

Jerry Bruckheimer

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.