Top 1200 Yankees Baseball Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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 met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.

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

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

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.