Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Carville

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

James Caan

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

James Caan

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

Jackie Robinson

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Jackie Robinson

You're going to be a great player, kid.

Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

Jackie Robinson

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Gary Bettman

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Herbert Hoover

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Ernie Harwell

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

Ernie Harwell

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Fay Vincent

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Floyd Abrams

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

George Pataki

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

George Steinbrenner

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

George Carlin

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Adam Roberts

My first objective is to graduate. I definitely want to stay around the baseball field, maybe get into coaching and do it at the highest level I can.

Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding scoreboard.

Barry Zito

I think there will be more of a baseball atmosphere.

That was his game to determine. It was his baseball game at that point. You have to give him the opportunity to finish it.

Mike Schmidt

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.

That's the variable (with this year's team). Comparisons mean nothing. It's about doing it on the field. What I can tell this group is how (1999 seniors) approached that season like there wasn't going to be another baseball game to be played, ever. - This team has come in with a good attitude.

Harmon Killebrew

That's a very good question. Major League Baseball has to make it clear what it wants to do. They're the ones on the spot.

Dennis Quaid

I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. My favorite sports movies transcend the sports that they are about.

Roger Kahn

Look at the national furor it caused. If baseball is losing its hold on the people, why is everybody having a nervous breakdown because Rocker said some dumb things? I think baseball still has a huge hold on this country.

We are thrilled Coach Montague joined the Marist baseball staff. His work ethic and baseball knowledge are unparalleled. His energy on and off the field carries over to the players and that is why he gets the most out of his players.

It did for an instant. But we still had a lot of baseball left, and you can't wrap it up after that play.

Buzz Bissinger

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

Honus Wagner

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.