Famous Quotes & Sayings

You just lose your timing, and baseball is a game of rhythm. Guys are used to playing every day or just about every day. So to have 10 days off and then try to jump back into it is tough. Their pitchers did a pretty good job too.

You just can't win a baseball game doing that.

Milton Bradley

white people never want to see race in anything. There's race involved in everything. There's race involved in baseball.

Grady Little

We feel good about him being able to do that. He's at a point where we hoped he'd be when he takes off to go to the World Baseball Classic.

Aaron Rowand

I stop watching baseball when football season starts,

I think Joe will be coaching baseball until the end.

Sandy Alderson

I think Kevin's critical to our baseball operations. Going into next season we're going to have as strong a baseball operations staff as any club in baseball, and it starts with Kevin.

Sandy Alderson

I think Kevin's critical to our baseball operations, ... Going into next season we're going to have as strong a baseball operations staff as any club in baseball, and it starts with Kevin.

I think I would rather hold back on the celebration until mid?September. It's not always now we start but how we finish that's important. Myself and my staff and these young men as they start getting an understanding of playing baseball at the professional level and if they do that they'll have success. They go hand in hand.

Just in baseball terms, he's a leadoff hitter who can work the pitcher, make him throw up to 20 pitches. I'm sure Johnny Damon is going to come back to haunt us.

I'm still very impressed with our young pitching. This is a very important week of baseball for us.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm so happy for these kids. A lot of people started doubting us. Even we started doubting us. But then we started believing again, started playing good baseball again, and I like the way we're playing going into the playoffs.

Mark Teixeira

I'm still going to be playing baseball, still getting my work in. The team might miss me a little bit, but at the same time, when we get back, it will be like we've never left.

Mark Teixeira

Maybe that's it. Either that or there was a flaw or defect in the baseball. I hit it hard but ... I don't know if I could take credit for that.

Managing is the best job in baseball. And if you can't manage, then I've got the second-best job in baseball.

Man, that was fun. That's what Florida State baseball is all about.

Kirby Puckett

Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain't going to make no money in journalism.

Jeffrey Loria

I'm hoping we can get this thing moving along. I'm hoping to re-energize (South Florida elected officials). We all have to get together to make this thing happen everybody who wants to save baseball in South Florida.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?” In truth, it looked a little more violent and military. A slow grin spread over his face. “Baseball. Think maybe you could stand behind me and give me a few pointers?

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

Barry Pepper

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

Geoff Jenkins

We got the kids here now. I think you saw the formula in Oakland and Minnesota when their young guys came up and they started winning. That's the formula we're trying to copy. We're not going to go out and spend $130 million for a baseball team, so we've got to have our young guys produce.

We haven't been playing our best baseball. Everyone here wants to turn it around, and we think we can.

Aubrey Huff

We have nothing to lose. Play baseball and relax. The other team, as far as I'm concerned, has everything to lose.

Mike Scioscia

We haven't played consistent baseball. Our offense has been spotty at times.

The President did not demand us to win the tournament, but he told us that we should play well, and teach the world how baseball is played in Cuba.

Aaron Harang

Those are three of the toughest outs in baseball.

I was happy with the way we played. I think we are playing better baseball right now.

Reggie Sanders

It felt like I had never played baseball before and I was glad to get that one out of the way, ... was real nice.

I still haven't been able to find a baseball player who has had this. You think about elbows, shoulders, ankles, knees, but this is definitely a different thing.

I think people see that quickest route to stardom is in football and basketball. In basketball, you can come from college and go straight to the pros. Football is the same way. In baseball, it takes longer. You have to go through the minor leagues. There aren't that many kids playing Little League baseball. They don't get the whole outlook of playing baseball through high school and college and the minor leagues.

I think everybody in baseball knows he's a good player. Playing in Tampa Bay like he did and then going to Seattle ... when you play in the same outfield with Ichiro (Suzuki), you're not going to be top dog, that's for sure.

Manny Acta

I think everybody in baseball knew, even before the All-Star break last year, that we were going to play this Baseball Classic, and everybody that had the desire to play prepared themselves to play for this tournament. Yes, they didn't have 100 at-bats or whatever before this, but we got all the way to the seventh game. We played two rounds, the guys saw enough pitches, they had enough at-bats. There are no excuses.