Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been disappointing and upsetting to me because of the success I was having. Then I get out here and it looks like I've never played baseball before.

It's pretty exciting, ... It feels good for me that my wife has something other than me and the children to handle now, really something of her own that she can enjoy. I enjoy playing baseball and that's my job, and now she has something, too, that fulfills her life other than the kids and I.

It's pretty unbelievable that Texas is the second largest state in terms of population and that we have only two baseball teams. California has five. I think eventually we will have another team. Whether this is the time or not, I'm not sure. If the voters in San Antonio support it, we certainly would, too.

It's understandable, though. The owners have a lot of money invested in their teams, so they didn't want to take a chance on their players getting hurt or have their season disrupted. It's just a shame that such a popular sport has been eliminated. Hopefully, after that first Olympics without baseball (2012), they'll miss baseball and see that it was a mistake to drop it.

Adam Everett

It's tough when one of your best friends in baseball does it. It's bittersweet.

Johan Santana

It's up to the professionals and the baseball writers to decide who's going to win it, ... I feel like I did my job, and personally, I'm pleased with everything that happened. Unfortunately, we didn't go to the playoffs -- that's what we were looking for.

Brian Sabean

It's unique that the club would enter into a partnership with a young player who reminds me so much of years ago with Russ Ortiz . Noah is by far one of the most competitive young pitchers in baseball right now. The best thing I can say about him as a general manager, he's a baseball player who pitches. ... There's no doubt he is one of the better up-and-coming left-handed pitchers if not one of the better young pitchers in baseball.

Sadaharu Oh

It's unfortunate the play was overruled. It's just unimaginable this could have happened, this did happen, in the United States, where baseball is very famous and very popular.

DAVID Seeds has the only seed containers exhibited in the Baseball Hall of Fame. They are as much a part of today's baseball experience as bats and balls.

Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.

Does it really matter to us? No. We did what we had to do to win the division. I've been on the best team in baseball going into the playoffs and it doesn't matter.

That's part of the little things. Tonight we had the one big inning, then we just chipped away. It's sound baseball - moving runners over with less than two outs, scoring runs with sacrifice flies, not giving away at-bats. You aren't going to score every time you do that, but if you do it consistently, good things will happen.

Ron Gardenhire

That's our Achilles' heel all year long. We've got one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and offensively, we just can't support them. That's why we're in the position we're in in our league, our division and this Wild Card race.

Jeffrey Loria

It's a killer. It's very disheartening to be in the situation we're in. But we've got no choice. We need to get this thing done, period -- one way or another. I'm not going to be the only one supporting this baseball team -- I mean carrying the team -- financially.

It's all about the nature of the sport. Baseball doesn't make money in college. There might be two or three baseball programs that break even.

It's all about momentum. Mountain Pointe is playing its best baseball right now. We know it and they know it.

David Eckstein

I told them baseball owed them nothing and wasn't a fair game. I emphasized what a privilege that it is to wear a uniform every day. I challenged them to do something to earn and deserve the right to wear a uniform. I warned them that if they didn't, they might not be wearing one.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Konami as an official global partner of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Konami has always been a strong supporter of baseball and it is only fitting that they be part of this historic global event.

George Steinbrenner

It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk.

It's very difficult when you start to understand you are facing a life-threatening situation. You don't know what's going happen. It goes beyond just wondering what's going to happen to your baseball career. You wonder how your entire life might change or if you're still going to be fortunate to have a life.

J. J. Johnson

It's not like fans will be sitting on their wallets if baseball players stop playing.

Rafael Furcal

For me, it's like a regular game. I guess the Dodgers needed me more than the Braves needed me, and that's why I'm here. It's a business. I'm happy to be here. I have a lot of friends there, but baseball is like that.

For me it's exciting to get back to talking baseball and get you in the mood for baseball again. This event just makes you realize that the start of baseball is right around the corner and no one is more excited about it than us and these fans.

Forget winning the World Series. I enjoyed playing baseball for the first time in a long time.

Steve Phillips

For a star player, he's one of the lowest-maintenance guys in baseball, ... You didn't have to worry about a late-night phone call, there was no entourage issue with him. He showed up to play every day, played hard and produced.

Stephen F. Lynch

Following the strike, I think the thing that brought people back to baseball was the big home run contest between Sosa and McGwire.

Football was important, but baseball is my first love. I know I can play baseball longer for health reasons. I feel can be more successful in a sport that I love rather than something I just do well.

Vin Scully

Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball.

Dan Peters

It stings that their high school season is over, but the past two years, we made the playoffs and won a district championship. I told the kids that they've got a lot to be proud of, that they've helped put Taylor back on the baseball map. I told them not to focus on what happened today, but to be proud of what you did in your career. I'm very proud of that core of players.

Jimmy Rollins

It's time to play winning baseball. We know where we want to go.

The fantasy licenses that we have granted this year are in the best interests of the fans and fantasy baseball players around the world.

The fans should be happy. That was a great show. They got to watch what baseball is in Cuba.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm dumbfounded right now, very ecstatic just because of how my teammates felt for me today, ... They were pulling for me. I'm kind of breathtaken. It's historic. It's a beautiful thing, not only for baseball but for my team.