Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Gibney

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Roy Oswalt

This stadium has a lot of baseball memories in it, and to come back here and pitch in this stadium before it's gone is great. Hopefully the biggest thing with us is to get going early, get in a groove early and hopefully get some momentum going our way.

Geoff Blum

You look back at the last 150 years of baseball and you can probably count on one hand how many times that play has worked. So you can call it luck, you can call it savvy, you can call it whatever you want.

Jack Horkheimer

You don't need a big object. Something the size of a golf ball, a baseball, or even a basketball could look as big as a jeep or flaming bus.

Tom Glavine

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Tony La Russa

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Wednesday will be a great day for Pacific baseball. But it's also a great recognition of what the Klein family has done for our community and this university.

We'd like to have something stronger, like the World Series ending the baseball season. We are considering a vast number of options.

We want to continue building our relationship with the city of Anaheim. We have worked together through the years and we are now working together in brining the World Baseball Classic to Anaheim.

We didn't bring the same intensity as they did. Good thing about baseball is you get a second chance two days later.

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

We didn't really play good baseball all day.

Carl Everett

We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.

We are playing good baseball right now, we are not committing turnovers like we were earlier in the year.

Yoenis Cespedes

Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Gabe Paul

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team.

Yeah, but you should have seen what his hand looked like. After the game it looked like he had a baseball glove on it.

Dan O'Brien

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

Orlando Cepeda

This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.

The property has one of the few remaining baseball fields from that era in the whole country that has not been bulldozed. It is an important property for Durham and we want to be part of this project.

We could make the tournament, but I'm more concerned with how we're playing. We could play better baseball and still not do anything. Or we could play the same and get in the tournament. I want us to play better.

We know that St. Louis is a baseball town and the city loves its Cardinals. It wouldn't be right if the fans - the people who support the Cardinals year after year - were not a part of the voting process.

George Romero

We have two kids, so our family life is very sort of mundane... take the kids to school, ballet, baseball and all of that. I like to go see movies, travel... but I love being with the family... going to Disney or something like that.

We just didn't take care of the baseball or swing the stick it's been what has hurt us all year long.

We played pretty good baseball Monday. We got some key hits and for the most part, good pitching.

Pat Gillick

We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

Pat Gillick

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become

We had our best spring ever. The World Baseball Classic brings a new dimension. I think it's terrific.

We have the better part of five months of baseball to play.