Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ishmael Reed

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Irvine Welsh

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Ichiro Suzuki

Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do.

Ichiro Suzuki

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Ichiro Suzuki

I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

Ichiro Suzuki

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

Ichiro Suzuki

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

Francisco Rodriguez

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

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.

If he gets the surgery, then he will probably be able to play baseball in the spring, ... I don't want him not to be able to play golf with his kids when he grows up because his knee is so torn up.

Clint Hurdle

If he's made a better play in his life in a baseball uniform, I'd like him to tell us about it.

Harry S Truman

May the sun never set on American baseball.

Harry S Truman

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

Jerry Bruckheimer

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

Jerry Coleman

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

Jerry Coleman

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Jerry Coleman

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

Kevin Hall

If, for some reason, the D.C. deal falls through, and Major League Baseball wants to talk, they know where to find us.

I definitely wouldn't want to go through it again. I never had any real setbacks and it wasn't grueling by any means. It just got boring. I couldn't watch a whole baseball game on TV. I'd have to turn it off after a couple of innings. But I'm itching to play now.

I definitely think after losing three in a row it's a good thing. It gives the guys an opportunity to focus on other things, not forget about baseball totally, but just go do some other things. Then we can come back with a clean slate after the All-Star game.

I'd get done with school, go to baseball practice, go to volleyball practice and then go do my homework and go to bed. It was fun, though.

I can't think of anything better. Playing baseball in great weather every day in Florida, that's a heck of a lot better than going to class and playing in 40-degree weather.

Jimmy Rollins

I couldn't walk around Holland in those. But that's the thing. You get to interact with these kids at their place as a human being, not just as a baseball player. They get to see us in regular clothes, and we get to play around and be funny.

Michael Barrett

I don't think the baseball was ever changed. It's hard for me to believe they could change the baseball to increase home runs.

Clint Hurdle

I don't think there was any big talk or meeting. It was the culmination of holding on to a perception. When you get to a point where you pitch, play defense and play smart baseball regularly, when the game gets clean, you win on the road.

Chuck D.

I don't think there's any question that by the year 2007, ... this is going to be a winning organization and a winning baseball team for the first time.

Chipper Jones

I don't think there's any doubt everybody is looking at us and gunning for us. Baseball is our national pastime. It's always been perceived that Americans play the best baseball.

I don't see it turning into Major League Baseball or NFL football. But it's still a growing segment of televised sports that works well as an economic unit.

Fay Vincent

I don't think Bud wants a major confrontation. On other hand he wants major changes, and that's going to lead to a major confrontation, ... The union is very well run. They win all the legal fights and baseball has to fold. There isn't much history that says the owners have a very good chance.

George Steinbrenner

I am very happy that Brian will continue as general manager. Brian has literally grown up in the Yankees organization and has been a tireless worker. He is very knowledgeable about the game and the business of baseball and is extremely loyal. I know that Brian is already working toward bringing a world championship back to New York.

Vladimir Guerrero

I am very, very happy for the fans, ... I really wanted to do it here for them because they have been very supportive. Out in right field, people kept telling me that I would do it. I am happy there is still some baseball left to play.