Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Durocher

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Leo Durocher

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Leo Durocher

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Leo Durocher

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Leo Durocher

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Lauren Groff

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

Larry King

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Joseph Campbell

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

John Malkovich

For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents...But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

John Lee Hooker

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

John Kruk

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

John Kruk

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

Jim Leyland

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Jim Leyland

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

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.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Leigh Steinberg

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Geena Davis

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

Malcolm Gladwell

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

Magic Johnson

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Frank McCourt

I've stated before that my number one priority as the steward of the Dodgers is winning, and I believe that hiring Ned is a step in that direction. With his genuine passion for baseball, his intimate knowledge of all aspects of the game, and solid leadership skills, I am confident that Ned's experience will help the Dodgers put a winning team on the field, year-in and year-out.

Juliana Hatfield

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Juliana Hatfield

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Judy Johnson

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.