Famous Quotes & Sayings

Masaharu Morimoto

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Pat Gillick

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Pat Gillick

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Pat Conroy

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Mike Piazza

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Neville Cardus

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Neville Cardus

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

Gerald R. Ford

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

Gerald R. Ford

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

Gerald R. Ford

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Jim Jarmusch

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Hanley Ramirez

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

Frank Zappa

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

George H. W. Bush

Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.

Harmon Killebrew

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

Harmon Killebrew

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

Harmon Killebrew

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do,

Harmon Killebrew

How the hell can you play here?

Harmon Killebrew

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

Greg Maddux

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

Greg Maddux

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Greg Maddux

There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.

Jim Bouton

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

Jim Bouton

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Jim Bouton

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Jim Bouton

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bunning

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Jesse Ventura

Marijuana is to rock and roll what beer is to baseball, so imagine if they took away beer at the ballgame.

Mike Scioscia

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

Mike Schmidt

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

Mike Schmidt

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Darnell

Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

Mike Ditka

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.