Top 1200 Great Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

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

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

As soon as I finished skating, watching video of me stealing baseball bags was funny.

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for baseball.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

I probably have more success in football, but baseball is a passion of mine, and I want to play as long as possible.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.

In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.

For me, being involved in a no-hitter or a perfect game is one of the most exciting things in baseball.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.