Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Davis

I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

John Irving

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

John Irving

I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

John Oliver

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

John McGraw

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

John McGraw

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

John McGraw

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

John McGraw

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

Leo Durocher

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Leo Durocher

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Leo Durocher

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Leo Durocher

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Leo Durocher

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Leo Durocher

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Lauren Groff

I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

Larry King

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Joseph Campbell

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

Juliana Hatfield

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Juliana Hatfield

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Leigh Steinberg

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Malcolm Gladwell

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

Magic Johnson

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Frank McCourt

I've stated before that my number one priority as the steward of the Dodgers is winning, and I believe that hiring Ned is a step in that direction. With his genuine passion for baseball, his intimate knowledge of all aspects of the game, and solid leadership skills, I am confident that Ned's experience will help the Dodgers put a winning team on the field, year-in and year-out.

Harlan Coben

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Grantland Rice

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

John Malkovich

For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents...But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

John Lee Hooker

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

John Kruk

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?