Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

Theodore Roosevelt

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

Theo Rossi

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

Marcus Giles

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

Kin Hubbard

Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

Michael Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Michael Lewis

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Bud Selig

I guess none of this is unexpected. I'm saddened by it in the sense that opening day was such a good, positive day. Every game was sold out. It was really a great baseball day. But controversy will spawn with that type of activity, whether I like it or not.

Nick Johnson

I had a great time with baseball growing up, ... I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Brad Penny

I had good defense behind me and my off-speed pitch was working OK. I was throwing strikes.

It helps tremendously. The only sport that probably won't get out this week is tennis. There is only so much you can do inside. Baseball has it tougher than softball, they can't even lay out an infield.

I think a group of players has to understand the type of baseball you have to play to play winning baseball. You have to realize the importance of the intangibles, the little things.

I just think it's a good idea. You could have three teams in a very small proximity from one another and which creates more interest and revenue. For baseball operations, they'd have somebody else close to play.

Doug Harvey

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.

I just love being with those kids. They love baseball, and we just have a great time together.

Paul Konerko

I just hope it doesn't change either of their luck or our luck, because we were playing OK. You don't want to screw around with the baseball gods.

I just decided it would be best if I just focus on one sport. The (football) coaches said I could be 100 percent baseball now, and I'm looking forward to that. I haven't had the opportunity, yet. I'm looking forward to the strides I can make this season.

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.

I'm pleased with how we've played so far in the first half. But there's a lot of baseball left to be played.

Impressive. He beat the best team in baseball today.

I'm out driving the kids to hockey or basketball or baseball. It was time for me to do something for myself.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm just out there having fun, ... If I'm not having fun I'm definitely not playing the type of baseball I want to play.

I miss baseball badly, ... If I didn't get some sort of closure, which came with winning the state championship, I'd probably be somewhere playing baseball, too.

Michael Barrett

I'm just a baseball player; I'm not a math major. I'm still not real clear on it. In the event of a three-way tie, it comes down to runs scored, I believe.

I?m so proud of these students. Some play baseball, softball or run for the track team, hold down jobs, have homework assignments each night and they still found time to raise this much money? Words cannot describe just how proud I am of them.

Scott Linehan

I flew back for a weekend so I could catch at least one of my son's baseball tournaments this year. But the whole time, I was on the phone talking to coaches. I literally sat in the stands or in my car ... and was on the phone.