Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chet Huntley

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

Bill Lee

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

Bill Veeck

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

Bill Veeck

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Bill Veeck

An island of surety in a changing world.

Bill Veeck

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Amy Tan

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

Norman Finkelstein

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

Gene Chizik

What we're really pleased with is that they played hard. We tried to execute our defense, but we played a lot of base defense. Obviously, we have a lot of work to do on some things. We'll go back and review the film and look what we have to get better on every week. Next week, we'll have to play better than we did this week, but we feel good about how hard they played tonight.

What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country.

Buddy Guy

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Casey Stengel

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

Casey Stengel

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Casey Stengel

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

Casey Stengel

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Calvin Trillin

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

Calvin Coolidge

Baseball is our national game.

Daniel Alarcon

Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.

Norv Turner

We've got good competition, ... I think, based on a game or a half, some people start jumping to conclusions, but I think that is one of our most competitive positions.

Bo Jackson

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

Billy Mays

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

Dick Enberg

Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

Earl Weaver

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Bob Feller

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Charley Pride

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

Charles Kuralt

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Charles Kuralt

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

Bill Klem

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.

Ken Bruen

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

George Vecsey

Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.