Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Robinson

Why put the burden on baseball to try and figure out where to go, and maybe put an asterisk? Just wipe the whole thing out.

Garret Anderson

Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.

This tournament will show me where I am. I'll see where it takes me. When my career is over, I want to stay in baseball as a pitching coach or scout. But right now, I still feel I can be productive. I just have to prove to everyone that I can still pitch. I'm ready to do that.

We didn't get the low strike called early and we kind of live off that in trying to get ground balls. They got some hits. They're a good baseball team. We didn't have any intensity through the middle part of the game and never got anything going offensively.

Freddy Garcia

We let all of baseball know that we've got the best pitching staff. We proved it all year long.

We're trying to keep baseball within the Olympics after the 2008 Games, and this decision by the Treasury Department of the United States does not help us at all.

We're trying to get those guys that are part of the (World Baseball Classic) out of here early, so we do it in order of seniority and hierarchy, and Wheels is a senior member of the club.

Bryce Harper

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

Bryce Harper

I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.

The real rivalry is intense, but this is minor-league baseball. It's supposed to be fun.

Paul Simon

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

Paul Simon

The phrasing didn't work as well.

Paul Simon

I always get very calm with baseball.

Andrew Brackman

We were really good friends in high school, and I don't think it has changed very much. I am always busy with this basketball stuff. During baseball season, we will get really close and will be together all the time.

Marcus Camby

We don't need any champagne. None of that stuff like they do in baseball. . . . Just a quick acknowledgement. We have a bigger picture . . . (winning the division) hasn't been done in a long time in Denver. It's great for the fans, but we want to get that ring.

We can't wait for the 2006 Pirates baseball season to get started! Sales have been extremely strong this off-season. We've sold 10,000 season tickets to date and more and more fans continue to purchase each day.

Barry Bonds

We can talk about baseball or we don't have a conversation.

E. O. Wilson

We don't want to be baseball. It's the Yankees and everybody else there.

We didn't play good baseball those two games, and I believe it upset a lot of the guys.

Raul Ibanez

When I was growing up, it seemed like it was probably the most realistic movie about baseball life. Now that I've lived it, I can say that it is the most accurate.

George Brett

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

George Brett

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

George Brett

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

George Brett

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

George Brett

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett

If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.

Paul Brooks

We have a baseball-rich tradition in the community and have a pretty good group of players out.

Bernie Sanders

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Bernie Sanders

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting.

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to hit one. We knew he was going to hit more than one. We expect him to hit one every time he comes to the plate, and that's a good feeling even if he doesn't do anything. The anticipation gets everyone on their toes. What we need to do now is get him into good baseball shape, which he is not in now.

Felipe Alou

We knew he was going to fight his way out of it. A guy like that is just too good a baseball player ... We knew it was just a matter of time before he figured it out, and he did.

Doug Ferguson

We knew coming into this game that we were going to have to play near-perfect baseball because they're so fundamentally sound, and we didn't do that. But this (tournament) was a good experience for us.