Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Teixeira

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.

Mark Mulder

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Nick Johnson

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Nick Jonas

I've fallen in love with baseball.

Missy Peregrym

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Misty May-Treanor

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

And, don't think I don't sneak over the baseball field every once in a while to see Chad.

Edd Roush

One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

Kwame Kilpatrick

There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

Jon Lovitz

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Jon Bernthal

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

Jon Bon Jovi

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Johnny Pesky

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Johnny Pesky

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Damon

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

Jack Welch

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

The enjoyment of the game, the glory of the game, sir. Yes, we'd like to win, but if we don't that's OK. Baseball started as a method of exercise for workers and it became competitive later.

The guys want to work, but it has to be something that's fair. The profitability in baseball is so huge, umpires are affordable.

Christy Mathewson

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Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Diaz

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.

Matt Holliday

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

Matt Kemp

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Matt Kemp

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

Maya Angelou

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

Matthew Modine

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Mark Russell

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Phil Jackson

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

Kurt Cobain

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Kerry Wood

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.