Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

David Wright

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

David Wright

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

David Ortiz

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

David Ortiz

I just want to play baseball.

Danny Bautista

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

Chris Capuano

I'm very happy to have the win and the runs, but it was a tough game to pitch in the sense that there were a lot of long innings,

Dontrelle Willis

I'm very excited just to meet with him and talk baseball with him. He's an experienced winner and he comes from a great organization that knows how to win. I think he's going to put that personality and that feeling in our locker room, so it's a good choice.

Derek King

I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat and I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom,

Gary Sheffield

I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.

Ian Snell

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

Carlos Lee

I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.

I'm hopeful the fans come streaming back. It's time for the fans to step up to the plate and watch this exciting baseball club.

I'm honored to be coaching one of the premier baseball programs in the country.

I'm having a great time. It's obviously fun, but I don't think about baseball when I'm in bed. I think about how I'm able to breathe, how I'm able to sleep.

I like what he's doing, and I really like his work ethic. He has good baseball instincts and he's made a very good impression.

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In too many games we played five or six innings of great baseball and then just cruised through the ninth. To be the dominant team we want to be we need to keep the pressure on our opponents every inning.

In the B class it's tough. Most of the schools only do baseball or track. It's a numbers game, we just don't have a lot of students.

If you think you know everything about baseball, your dead wrong!

Tommy Lasorda

If you said to God, 'Create someone who was what a baseball player should be,' God would have created Joe DiMaggio ... And he did.

If you watch a football game or a baseball game, you don't see sportsmanship like this. In fencing you've got to salute your opponent before every match, and you've got to shake hands. These are the rules.

James Smith

In my three years coaching baseball this is collectively the most talent that we have had top to bottom in the lineup. Offensively and defensively this is the most talent we've had. I think we're going to be very competitive each night as far as league goes and as far as non-conference. I think we're going to be in a lot of ball games this year.

In my judgment, the reason the vote was taken is a simple one: Baseball and softball are not European sports. The Olympics are Euro-centric and Euro-dominated. I don't think there's much more to it than that.

Omar Vizquel

I never thought I was gonna come up with a game like that today. Sometimes you rest 11 hours and feel strong and you go 0-for-4. So, that's the way baseball works sometimes.

Bud Selig

I guess none of this is unexpected. I'm saddened by it in the sense that opening day was such a good, positive day. Every game was sold out. It was really a great baseball day. But controversy will spawn with that type of activity, whether I like it or not.

It helps tremendously. The only sport that probably won't get out this week is tennis. There is only so much you can do inside. Baseball has it tougher than softball, they can't even lay out an infield.

I think a group of players has to understand the type of baseball you have to play to play winning baseball. You have to realize the importance of the intangibles, the little things.

I just think it's a good idea. You could have three teams in a very small proximity from one another and which creates more interest and revenue. For baseball operations, they'd have somebody else close to play.

Doug Harvey

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.

I just love being with those kids. They love baseball, and we just have a great time together.

Paul Konerko

I just hope it doesn't change either of their luck or our luck, because we were playing OK. You don't want to screw around with the baseball gods.

Joe Nichols

Being in the studio with Dolly was like a baseball fan getting to play catch with Mickey Mantle.