Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Prince Fielder

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.

Ted Williams

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Pete Rose

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

Pedro Martinez

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

Leo Durocher

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Joseph Campbell

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

Lou Boudreau

As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

Lou Gehrig

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Jon Stewart

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

Joe Flaherty

My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

John Irving

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

John Oliver

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

Gaylord Perry

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Gaylord Perry

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

Joe Walsh

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

Joe Torre

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

Joe Torre

In baseball, you're always moving people around.

Joe Torre

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

All of the schools, and the district name, are based on the Mohawk Indian language because that's the tribe that (historically) roamed these plains.

All the decisions are based entirely on the election code.

Ted Thompson

All seven people I interviewed wanted Brett Favre to come back and play quarterback for us. I know Mike has worked with Brett so there is some familiarity, but I didn't make the decision to hire Mike as a head coach based on that.

Donald Trump

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

The market reacted to lower oil prices. We're going to be more based on interest rates and commodity prices for a while. There was less volatility, and trading was more uniform today.

The marketplace and our own research have made it clear that the industry prefers one main industry event. Based on the industry's input, we will be refocusing all of our resources to produce Macworld in San Francisco.

The Mavericks are getting the short end of the stick. They're playing the five seed when they should be playing the seven. The fair way to do it is just seed one through eight based on records.

Heywood Broun

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

Harlan Coben

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

John Lee Hooker

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

John Kruk

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.