Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure that both sports offer their own unique challenges when developing young talent. But I think baseball is more of a crapshoot because you're generally looking at a longer time frame in the maturation process of a young prospect.

In football you have to be big, and in basketball you have to have height, but in baseball, if you are a good worker, you'll be OK. This is a game of tradition, and it's important to play it the right way.

In history, Cuba has always been a really strong team. I realize how strong the baseball system is in Cuba. Probably everybody knows about Cuba.

In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

In baseball, you're either moving forward or you're going backward. We're going backward.

In baseball you play every day so you have to be able to bounce back and I am glad that we bounced back and were able to play pretty well.

Livan Hernandez

In baseball, you make one mistake, you can lose the game, ... One mistake.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Choo Freeman

In baseball terms, I guess I am, but I feel welcome here.

In baseball, players don't like being shown up and umpires are professionals and we don't like to be shown up either. When he did it the second time I felt that he should be told in no uncertain terms it wasn't going to be tolerated.

John Smoltz

In baseball history, it'll never be done again, ... We did it in such strange ways every single year.

John C. Reilly

In 'Magnolia,' I had to learn all this police training. In 'For Love of the Game,' I had to perform like a major-league baseball player.

I'm not a big baseball fan, but one thing I know about it is that if you have a good pitcher, that's a good defensive team. If you can stop people, you give yourself a chance to win. I thought we played pretty good defense.

Jack Morris

I know there's a lot of people who publicly don't want to say this right now. But I think they're hoping that the momentum this occasion brings, and the way it brings the community together, will help extend this to the next step that they all want, which is a new stadium and baseball for a long time.

Johnny Damon

I know this is the greatest moment in my baseball career. We're world champions now. This is a dream come true.

Jason Giambi

I know we like to think baseball is America's game, but that isn't totally true. There are some teams out there that can play this game pretty well.

I know the baseball fraternity were watching at home. It was televised at four this morning. I know a lot of people watched and I can imagine their feelings of joy for what we did.

Jason Bartlett

I know what to expect. I got the butterflies out last year. Now I can go back to playing baseball like I did in the minor leagues.

Chadwick Boseman

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

I knew we were going to struggle offensively early in the spring. There's a reason pros go down and play 30 or 40 exhibition games in the spring. Baseball is a game where you need to see repetition, repetition, repetition.

David Wright

I'll be sitting in bed tonight thinking about the crowd and the energy today. That's what New York baseball is all about. This is what I want to experience in October.

Wayne Gretzky

I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.

I'm anticipating pandemonium. I'm anticipating a dogfight. It will be the most intense baseball series I've ever been part of.

I'm anticipating pandemonium, ... I'm anticipating a dogfight. It will be the most intense baseball series I've ever been part of.

I'm as frustrated as I've ever been in coaching. Baseball starts with pitching and ends with pitching, and we didn't get any.

Jesse Palmer

I'm an athlete, ... I'm a baseball player.

Bobby Valentine

If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don't know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn't be in the decision-making process to begin with.

I only became a fan of baseball when I was 14.

I had a feeling in spring training that this team had the potential to go all the way. We have the best pitching staff in Japanese baseball and our batting order is strong from top to bottom.

Tom Selleck

I had a fantasy of being a pro baseball player, and I've gotten to play a Major League Baseball player (in 1992's 'Mr. Baseball'). I loved Westerns as a little kid and I get to do them. I even get to die as an actor and then you just go home and have dinner. It's great. So now, I'm not a candidate, but I play one on TV and I'll be home for dinner.

If you have that slump the best players in baseball are the ones who get out of those slumps instead of the guy who wallows in misery forever.

Nick Swisher

If you didn't love that game, you don't love baseball,

Ozzie Guillen

If you're a baseball fan, that's one of the best ones you'll ever see.