Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Guzman

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Robert Kagan

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Rodney Dangerfield

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Rod Carew

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

Rod Carew

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Roberto Clemente

Baseball has been very good to me.

Roberto Clemente

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

Roberto Clemente

God wanted me to be a baseball player.

Roberto Clemente

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

Roberto Clemente

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

Roberto Clemente

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

Roberto Clemente

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Roberto Clemente

I was born to play baseball.

Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Tom Glavine

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

Tom Hanks

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

Tim McCarver

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

Tim McCarver

Speed slows down the game.

Tim McCarver

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Ryan Zimmerman

It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.

Ryne Sandberg

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

Ryne Sandberg

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

Ryne Sandberg

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

Ryne Sandberg

In baseball, there's always the next day

Russell Wilson

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

Roy Campanella

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Ron Shelton

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

Rollie Fingers

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

Susan Sarandon

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

Sharon Olds

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

Sharon Olds

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

Simone Elkeles

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

Tony La Russa

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.