Top 1200 Playing Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

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

When I was younger, to be honest, watching Bo Jackson, I dreamed of playing both sports. But as I got older, the opportunities were much better in hockey than baseball.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

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

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

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

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.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

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.

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

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

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

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

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

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.

I want to be happy. I want to enjoy playing baseball.

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

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

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

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 it would be pretty cool, whether it would be basketball or baseball, playing for a national team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

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.

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 felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

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

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

Although playing baseball is my biggest passion, the help my foundation has been able to provide people over the years makes me very proud.

Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It's not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you're playing.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

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

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

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

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

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