Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Yastrzemski

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Alan Dershowitz

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

Al Gallagher

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

Billy Beane

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

Billy Beane

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

Billy Beane

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Bill James

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Bill James

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Bill James

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Bill James

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Bill James

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

Bill James

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

We have high expectations. We're looking to get back to playing good baseball and doing things right.

Bruce Catton

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Brett Hull

Baseball has all the money.

Bowie Kuhn

I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

You can't win them all but you can try.

Babe Ruth

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

Babe Ruth

The termites have got me.

Babe Ruth

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

Babe Ruth

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Babe Ruth

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

Babe Ruth

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Babe Ruth

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

Babe Ruth

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

Babe Ruth

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

Babe Ruth

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

Babe Ruth

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

Babe Ruth

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

Babe Ruth

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.