Top 1012 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Players - Page 2

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.

As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.

Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

I have fun every day. The game is supposed to be fun.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

I understand the importance of giving back, and that's something I definitely want to do.

Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.

Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

Some guys play not to get hurt, and they're never really as good as they can be. That's not the way I play.

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's what you get,' I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I've grown up and understood how I'm supposed to conduct myself and I respect people as I go along the way.

It's one of those scenarios you feel will never happen to you. Nobody thinks they're going to be the one, whatever, to get in a car wreck to have their, you know, their kids killed in a plane crash, whatever, you don't think those things are going to happen to you. And I didn't think that I'd be traded. So.

I want to stay with the Orioles. I'd like to play here for the rest of my career. I don't want to go through this again in four years.

I want to be better every year, just like everyone else does. From what I learned from last year, I feel a lot more comfortable. I know the game and how it goes up here. You get in certain situations the first time, you really don't know what to expect. Now that I've been in them-and I've been in every situation possible last year-there's nothing new to come at me.

Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

I've always enjoyed hitting things as hard as I can. It's fun to hit things and watch them fly.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.

You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player.

You have to learn how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

Don't be afraid to take risks. Make the most of your journey. Make it fun and exciting.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

You shouldn't be playing the game if you don't think that the win will happen.

At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's part of the job.

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.

I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.

Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.