Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Coleman

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

Ford Frick

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.

Ford Frick

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

Floyd Abrams

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

George Vecsey

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

George Vecsey

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

George Pataki

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

Javier Bardem

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

Hillary Clinton

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

You still have to have Lifetime, because that viewer base is a lot more established and committed. Dropping an established channel is more of a weakness than not having an emerging channel.

Darin Erstad

Your palms don't get as sweaty in center field as they do at first base when a big left-hander is hitting.

Your life will be very different, ... You need to work your way back, and the one thing I can do is push you in that direction. Society is based on honesty and you have paid and will continue to pay for many years, a price for your lack of honesty.

Bill Self

Your job is based on how you do with the potential that you have. That's why I think Jim is a great coach. I think that Kansas State is one of the best four teams in our league in the last half of the Big 12 season. They have lost a lot of tough games.

Brad Ausmus

your hands get cold, your feet get cold, but if you can't find a way to keep your mind off that stuff in a World Series, you probably shouldn't be in it.

Autumn Reeser

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

You're not game-planning for your defense. You're just trying to install your base protections, your base running plays, your base passing plays.

You're never going to see eye to eye on everything, but when you have a partnership based on respect and trust, you can always resolve things.

You're in warm weather, right on the field, watching a baseball game. What could be better?

You're going to have to provide this, or you'll lose the client base you already have.

You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden the base, you raise taxes on people who pay nothing, and if you lower rates you cut taxes for the rich.

Jim Tressel

You never know for sure in the preseason how teams are going to be. You can make your best guess based on the people that are returning, and that type of thing. But the thing about the Big Ten, we play a grueling out-of-conference schedule. And then, when you get into the league and you go into those opposing stadiums, it's hard to win. Our stadiums are incredible. It's like you're already down by a touchdown when you walk in the door.

Jim Tressel

You never know for sure in the preseason how teams are going to be, ... You can make your best guess based on the people that are returning, and that type of thing. But the thing about the Big Ten, we play a grueling out-of-conference schedule. And then, when you get into the league and you go into those opposing stadiums, it's hard to win. Our stadiums are incredible. It's like you're already down by a touchdown when you walk in the door.

You need to work through which of the qualified dividends you received from a mutual fund are actually qualified based on the holding period.

Adam Everett

You realize that baseball isn't your life any more. It's part of it, it's not your life. That's one of the biggest changes I've gotten from it.

Tim Roth

You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin.

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth people get an impression of you based both on the content of your message and on the way you deliver it.

Mary Karr

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

You never take anything for granted, and you run very hard. We expect to have the support of Democrats. The roadmap to victory is to get your base behind you solidly.

Your body gets a little beat up at the end, but there's nothing better than playing baseball everyday in beautiful weather.

Harold Reynolds

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

Catfish Hunter

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jack Morris

I just can't imagine what it would be like here without baseball. I don't even want to think about it. ... I just hope that the last few years - you know, three out of four they were in the playoff hunt - that everybody forgets about that contraction stuff and that some way, somehow, there will be baseball in Minnesota.