Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Wright

Baseball is a great way to kick off this community-wide event. We encourage everyone to bring their family and friends for a wonderful evening.

Baseball is a game of streaks and today they did not go our way. Now, we have to try to go out and get a win tomorrow and try to string a few wins together.

Baseball is a game of repetition. We just need to keep working at it.

Baseball is a game of failure. He who fails least wins.

Yogi Berra

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

Baseball in this setting is much more intimate." ()

Derek Jeter

Baseball in the past has taken a back seat to some of the other sports in terms of expansion. This is a huge step. You've got the players' association and the owners coming together on this. I think it's a great idea. People have questioned the timing of it, but when you think about it, when else are you going to have it?

Baseball in Italy is at a turning point. It can either take a big step forward and become really professional, or it can take two steps back.

Pokey Reese

Baseball helps me free my mind from the past.

Baseball has changed in that more business than ever is done in January and February. It didn't used to be that way.

Matt Johnson

Baseball has been a part of the history of Fort Myers.

Pat Sajak

Baseball fans west of New York City might hate the Yankees, but Yankee-hating is a good thing for the sport. Stadiums sell out, ratings go up and a team's own shortcomings can be blamed on someone else.

Ashley Monroe

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

Jeff Francoeur

Baseball doesn't make sense. I'll never get this game, and I'm never going try to figure it out. I'm just going to have fun every night and play as hard as we can.

Baseball does not mean you are going to be a winner. You are going to have to learn how to lose before you can win in order to have success. We have had tremendous success.

Peter Ueberroth

Baseball deserves to be in the Olympic Games. I think there's some reorganization that needs to be done internationally and domestically. But softball is and was ready to be in the Olympic Games.

Baseball can be an unfair game. Bowman made all sorts of plays, but the last one is the one people probably will remember. We didn't play well, and Wingate was a lot more ready to play than we were. We just wound up scoring more runs.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Baseball and business are all about relationships, like the bond between a team and its fans. The White Sox organization's long-term relationship with Miller Brewing has connected our fans to their beers.

Mike Schmidt

I'm always there for Pete. Major League Baseball has created this Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. I don't think he would mind if the commissioner said no, if the committee voted no.

Mark Teixeira

I'm always ready on Opening Day. It's been the weirdest Spring Training that I've ever had. The World Baseball Classic didn't help, but I feel great and my body feels great.

Rod Barajas

I'm a professional baseball player. Nothing that happens during a game is going to take me away from doing my job.

I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of baseball.

I'm a huge baseball fan. I always liked Marge, and I just wanted a couple of her things.

Edgardo Alfonzo

I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It is a power league.

I love baseball but this is the only game I get to see.

Johnny Damon

I have a lot of friends there and we had some great moments. But a lot of the guys are gone and that's how baseball is. The teams make their choices.

I have a lot of respect for Frank Robinson. He has respect for the game of baseball and the way it should be played. I was pleased because he is a man of his word. He said he was going to do something, and he follows up and he does it.

Bruce Bochy

I have a clean-shaven baseball card from 1979.

Penny Marshall

I have a whole museum almost. Baseball and basketball take up the bulk of it, and there's some football and a little bit of hockey.

I have a plan of creating a company. They have sprinting companies were they train people to be faster. Like wide receivers or baseball players.

Roger Clemens

I have met with a number of teams. But right now my thoughts are geared to the World Baseball Classic and to be effective for these games. After the games, I'll make a decision on that (his future).

John Kruk

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

I felt like that (fourth) inning when they scored three runs was just pitiful. We could have done a better job. I felt we played good defense most of the night. But in that one inning it cost us. We gave up three runs there and that's sort of been what's happened to us. We play good baseball but that one inning kills us.