Top 1200 Baseball And Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

I believe in my heart that the name of the game in baseball - from an offensive perspective - is getting on base and not making outs.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Adnan Virk and I work so well together, he's got the terrific background from hosting 'Baseball Tonight.'

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to get a hit.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

Elite baseball mechanics feel different in the bodies of MLB players than they appear on film.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

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

I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" .

I have sets, literally, of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

I know that one day I won't be good enough to play baseball anymore. But as long as I have an opportunity to, I want to keep fighting.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position.

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.