Baseball Quotes

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

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

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

I just want to play baseball.

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.