Baseball Quotes

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.