Top 1012 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Players - Page 5

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

What we project, we get back.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.

Be careful who you share your dreams with; not everyone shares your enthusiasm.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

It doesn't matter who's in the box. You go after them and get them out the best way you can.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

I didn't do anything. People are thinking that it's something serious; I have not put my hands on anyone, didn't put anyone in danger. Since I didn't do anything like that, I'm not thinking about it. If I didn't do anything, why should I think about it?

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

I know that I may not always get a hit or may not always catch the ball, but I'm going to damn sure try.

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

The world will end before there is another .400 hitter. . . . I think that was mentioned in the Bible.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

We set the table, but no one ate.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

I look forward to batting practice. I look forward to practice work.

I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.

If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos, was the best manager I've ever played for. Our relationship was so special.and he was the one that taught me how to be a leader. Fregos and I could relate to each other whether we were in the clubhouse or on the field. In 1993 The City of Brotherly Love changed the world..Fregos was the driving force!!!

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Things ain't like they say they be, but they do!

Coming from a great college program like F.S.U., everybody had one common goal, and that was to win. You get into the minor leagues, and whether it's right or wrong, it's a selfish game.

My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord's plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.

I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

It's a long season so you've got to try and focus on each day.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.