Baseball Quotes

I love the game of baseball.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

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

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

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."