Top 1200 Best Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

I want to concentrate on baseball, which is the best thing I know how to do.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

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

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

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

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

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

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

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

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.

I think that, because of the way I catch, that I'm one of the best catchers to have ever played baseball.

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.