Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Swisher

All you have to do is look at the back of his baseball card and know he'll be all right.

Buck O'Neil

The general manager of a baseball team can have lunch with the governor or he might have dinner with the United States president.

The Durham Bulls franchise has been an important member of the Devil Rays family from our very beginning and has become an American baseball icon. We are pleased that this association will continue.

Alex Rodriguez

The game of baseball has been my whole life. It's given me everything I have. I didn't think this was better for the game, the growth of the game, I wouldn't be playing. I felt that I owe this to the game. I've made the right decision. I'm very proud to be playing for the USA team. I plan to enjoy it.

The Cardinals have played 39 years of baseball beneath the arches of Busch Stadium and St. Louis has openly embraced the Cardinals spirit every season. We are proud to celebrate that no matter the club's win-loss record or league standing, fans have been treated to a host of memorable plays and moments combined to form the rich history that is Cardinals baseball.

The cardinal rule in baseball is you don't gamble. It's been posted in every clubhouse since 1927.

William Collins

This is our nation's capital. To have Major League Baseball return to our nation's capital has a special significance, ... There's the opportunity to own something that has been a part of the tradition and legacy of the city and the surrounding area, and now can become part of the fabric of our community.

Adam Everett

This is our home field. If we want to close it, we should be able to close it. That being said, they are Major League Baseball and they have their rule.

This is only the beginning. The best for the Golden Baseball League is yet to come, and we'll be there.

This has been the most important experience of my baseball career. I'm one step closer to the ultimate goal. I just need to stay on an even keel and continue working hard.

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It's a great way for us to start our league play.

Joel Zumaya

This is a great baseball town. I'm 21, so to see a place sold out with everybody into it is unbelievable and fun.

Huston Street

This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've never been around a group of guys that jelled like we did. I'll cherish these six weeks forever.

Bud Selig

This has not only been a historic day in baseball but a very meaningful one.

Jim Edmonds

This, ... has been too big of a deal over one tied baseball game.

Buck O'Neil

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

A loss is a loss and we're going to learn from it. But baseball is a great game. You play three times a week, so you don't have time to dwell on it.

Ron Gardenhire

All he can do is go out and throw the baseball, ... You have to think of where Radke is at. He has been our No. 1 starter for how many years? When you're the No. 1 starter, who are you facing? You're facing the other teams' No. 1, No. 2 starter pretty much the whole year.

A.J. was always around my friends and me. We were always playing tennis, pick-up baseball games, home run derby, anything. We played all kinds of sports. We had a great basketball hoop up in our driveway, too. There was a ton of room. It was perfect.

Enos Slaughter

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

Emo Philips

When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.

Emo Philips

My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

The damage to the soccer field has to be fixed soon, but with the baseball field, we have several months to get it fixed.

Gary Sheffield

You can start out hot, you can start out lukewarm or you can start out cold. If you're a good team, it will show up in the end. And we are a good team. Baseball is played the way it's played - you can't just make something happen.

Jessica Sanchez

You don't have to look very far here at Tinker Stadium to see why tonight's game cannot go on as planned. The Lake Highland Prep baseball coach is disgusted with what he sees. A bathroom in shambles, a grass-less field littered with debris and feces.

Jon Lovitz

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Jon Bernthal

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

Jon Bon Jovi

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Johnny Pesky

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Johnny Pesky

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Damon

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

John Cheever

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.