Baseball Quotes

"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw"

"If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball"

"Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television"

"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast"

"Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will"

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"

"I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did"

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball"

"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps"

"The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have"

"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game"

"Defense to me is the key to playing baseball"

"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit"

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking"

"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them"

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like"

"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball"

"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain"

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in"

"If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner"

"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip"

"I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does"

"Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray"

"I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.""

"I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more"

"I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do"

"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff"

"I wanted to be a professional baseball player"

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line"