Baseball Quotes

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

It's very disappointing... 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.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

I wanted to play baseball!

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

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

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

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.