Famous Quotes & Sayings

Had one of the best baseball minds I've ever been around. Connie Mack taught him well.

He is a very astute, very knowledgeable, very committed person. He loves baseball, but more important he's an excellent student.

Ozzie Guillen

He helps us in the field. But he helps this team more in the clubhouse, in the hotels, in the bus, in the planes. You look around baseball and one of the people they don't say anything negative about is Jim Thome. They love the way he respects the game and treats his fans and teammates.

He has satellite radio and he listens to jazz mostly. And baseball games. White Sox.

Felipe Alou

He is a great player. He has always been a great player, a complete player, a super player. And I hope he is judged by real baseball people when he is finished, by people who know a baseball player when they see one ... on the basis of true facts and not assumptions.

Jeff Conine

He got very emotional when he told us, like your granddad is going away and you're not going to see him anymore. It's tough for him. Baseball is his life.

Brian Cashman

He doesn't need to see him. He wants him to continue the therapy program he has been doing, and says as soon as he feels up to it he can get up on the mound.

J. F. C. Fuller

He gave me a lot of encouragement as a young man, as a baseball pitcher, and he has stayed in touch with me over the years up until the present time.

Felipe Alou

He gave me the best at-bat that I have seen this year, ... I'm not just talking about our team. I'm talking about any team. Right out of hospital.

Frank Robinson

He does not carry himself as a prima donna-type superstar. But to me he is one of the top players in baseball if he's healthy.

He loved baseball. He wanted to play baseball, he just wasn't good enough. He wanted to stay involved in the game. Umpiring was where he found this.

He looks good. He's changed his body. He's a baseball player, first and foremost. He's not too big; he's not too muscular.

Nick Swisher

He made a little adjustment. No one in here is worried about that guy. All you have to do is look on the back of his baseball card and know that everything is going to be all right.

Harry Caray

Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.

He never, ever took a second off out there. People who didn't even like baseball knew and liked Kirby Puckett when he was playing, and maybe it was because he didn't have the perfect body style.

He needs to understand that he's only just beginning in baseball. I think, though, he has already had many good things happen to him in baseball, but he needs to respect the hierarchy. That could lead to many problems in the future for him. He needs to have respect.

If we can go through those (games) playing good, solid baseball, I think we've got a chance to go pretty far.

If we could win Monday, it would be the greatest victory in Cuban baseball history.

I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm looking forward to the new challenges ahead. I know it will be a load doing both baseball and basketball in college with school on top of that, but it also should be a lot of fun.

I have enjoyed doing baseball but the opportunity just never presented itself to do it on a regular basis on the radio. I'm going to need a crash course on the Saints and the American Association but I'm looking forward to it. It should be a fun summer.

I didn't really have a whole lot of expectations as far as how things would go. We have a lot of talent and we can do some great things. But I didn't say (to the team) that our goal is to win X number of games. Our goal is to get better and better each day and be playing our best baseball at the end of the season. We're on our way to doing that.

Sadaharu Oh

I don't know about the politics, but since it's named the World Baseball Classic, I would like to see the Cuban team there.

I don't know about that. I've got to talk to someone about that. Cow bingo is more important than the baseball game? I don't know.

Barry Bonds

I don't judge those things. I have to concentrate on baseball.

Barry Bonds

I don't judge them. I have to concentrate on baseball. I leave that up to you guys to make those statements in the paper.

Ervin Santana

I don't have to be nervous; It's a baseball game.

Todd Helton

I don't know what to expect. I don't know why baseball would make my stomach feel any worse than sitting on the couch. It's kind of weird not knowing what to expect. But I expect to feel good and I do feel good.

I don't collect the stuff. I collect baseball cards. But I get calls all the time . . . It's a way to make a charitable donation in an unusual way.

Buck Showalter

I'd be happy if someone said he could come back by May 1. The trouble is, there is nothing in baseball to compare this injury to.

I'd be disappointed if we're not a four-bid league, if not a five-bid league. This is a big-time baseball league.

I feel great. My body feels better not having to work out for football and baseball at the same time, and it's a relief just to be able to focus on baseball 100 percent.

Miguel Cabrera

I feel good about that. I don't want to leave this team. I want to be on this team for a long time because they gave me my first opportunity in the big leagues. I've never thought that next year I'm going to arbitration and I'm going to make a lot of money. I just have to keep playing baseball the way I have to play.

Ichiro Suzuki

I feel really proud that I'm the only one of two Major League Baseball players to play in the final game. Of course, I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit.