Top 1200 Great Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

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

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

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

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

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

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

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.

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

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

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

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.

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

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

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

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

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

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.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

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.

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.

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.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

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

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

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

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

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.

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

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

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

I was a tomboy. And one of my first recollections of great success was playing baseball with the boys.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

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.'