Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Berkman

I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.

Lance Berkman

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.

Lance Berkman

Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.

Lance Berkman

My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.

Lisa Unger

My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.

Sharon Olds

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

Sharon Olds

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

Penny Marshall

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

Penn Jillette

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.

Marlee Matlin

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

Mariano Rivera

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

Mariano Rivera

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

Mariano Rivera

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family,

Marianne Moore

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go...

The Durham Bulls franchise has been an important member of the Devil Rays family from our very beginning and has become an American baseball icon. We are pleased that this association will continue.

Alex Rodriguez

The game of baseball has been my whole life. It's given me everything I have. I didn't think this was better for the game, the growth of the game, I wouldn't be playing. I felt that I owe this to the game. I've made the right decision. I'm very proud to be playing for the USA team. I plan to enjoy it.

The Cardinals have played 39 years of baseball beneath the arches of Busch Stadium and St. Louis has openly embraced the Cardinals spirit every season. We are proud to celebrate that no matter the club's win-loss record or league standing, fans have been treated to a host of memorable plays and moments combined to form the rich history that is Cardinals baseball.

The cardinal rule in baseball is you don't gamble. It's been posted in every clubhouse since 1927.

The clubs voted overwhelmingly in favor of the World Baseball Classic. It also has the full support of our partners, the Major League Baseball Players Association and the International Baseball Federation. The Clubs, the MLBPA and the IBAF all realize that the goal of the tournament - to grow the game and to increase interest in the sport worldwide - is in the long-term best interests of the game.

Fay Vincent

The committee's focus is on what we positively know about Buck, and that is he was a very important part of our baseball history, not just Negro League history, and he was honored by being a very strong candidate for election.

Lou Boudreau

As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

Lou Brock

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Lou Brock

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Lou Gehrig

I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

Lou Gehrig

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Jonathan Frakes

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Jon Stewart

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

Jon Miller

Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

Jon Lester

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

Josh Henderson

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

Phil Taylor

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.