Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Everett

You realize that baseball isn't your life any more. It's part of it, it's not your life. That's one of the biggest changes I've gotten from it.

Your body gets a little beat up at the end, but there's nothing better than playing baseball everyday in beautiful weather.

Harold Reynolds

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

Catfish Hunter

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jack Morris

I just can't imagine what it would be like here without baseball. I don't even want to think about it. ... I just hope that the last few years - you know, three out of four they were in the playoff hunt - that everybody forgets about that contraction stuff and that some way, somehow, there will be baseball in Minnesota.

I made it. There's a lot of people from the Dominican Republic that don't get this chance. Maybe a couple of guys will play baseball in the major leagues. Not a lot of people get to play football. With this sport I can take care of my family.

Ozzie Guillen

If I think I'm good, I don't care about that stuff. If he's not with the Cubs, he'll be with someone else. He's already proved to a lot of people in baseball that he's a good manager. That's it, he's a good manager.

If it were up to me maybe we?d have 35 sports, but we simply don?t have the finances to do it. In the foreseeable future I don?t see the finances to do it. No baseball for the foreseeable future.

Red Smith

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Red Smith

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Red Smith

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Johan Santana

We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent.

Johan Santana

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

Jimmy Fallon

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

Garrett Morris

Baseball... been berry berry good... to me.

Gaylord Perry

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes

Gaylord Perry

Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.

Gaylord Perry

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

Geena Davis

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

Heywood Broun

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

Heywood Broun

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

Hideki Matsui

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

Hideki Matsui

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Reggie Jackson

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Reggie Jackson

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Reggie Jackson

Hitting is better than sex.

Reggie Jackson

I am the best in baseball.

Reggie Jackson

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Reggie Jackson

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Tom Verducci

Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.

Tom Verducci

Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

Tom Glavine

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.