Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lynch

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

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.

Phyllis Schlafly

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

Mike Fitzpatrick

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

Peter Ueberroth

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

Peter Ueberroth

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

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.

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.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that's baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd give wrestling a shot.