Baseball Quotes (2726 Quotes)

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.

This is great exposure for James and for our institution. It was no secret that James would be on this list since he was selected in the professional draft after last year. Getting a degree was one of his main priorities and that was obvious by him being one of the few juniors in the country to turn down the money of professional baseball.

A giant has passed away. It leaves a huge void in all of baseball.

Quite a baseball game. I probably would have paid to see that one.

We are proud of our association with Major League Baseball and the 10 Clubs with whom we have sponsorship relationships. Our customers have a real affinity for baseball, so providing them with this special offer is just one way we're developing benefits that deliver added value and match their personal interests.

We knew that more research had to be done -- that a more complete picture had to be painted on the role of African-Americans in the history of baseball.

I feel like I'm back to normal, more mentally than anything. I feel more like a baseball player again. All I wanted was the opportunity to play again. This was the perfect spot. So far, everything is working out well.

I feel pretty good, ... To not swing a baseball bat in almost a year, no spring training, and go to a college and hit in a cage for a week and come out here and face major league pitching ... like I try to tell these guys, 'If I give you a little, it's a lot in this stage.'

A lot of us are concerned about the academic performance of baseball teams.

It is nice to have guys back that you have coached before. You hope they would teach the younger players the ropes and also how to be a baseball player in this program. They are nice leaders, now I just hope the others follow.

I just feel very comfortable with two strikes, ... It's one of those situations where you don't want to do anything wrong, but you want to be able to sit back and relax. The one thing I don't want to do is get any kind of jumpiness, any type of anything, into my body except focusing on the baseball.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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.

Our pitching and defense have been terrific. My first year, I think we rattled off about 10 (wins) in a row. But this is quite a streak. Our kids are on a good run. We're playing good baseball.

While that may be true, I have found Martinez to be one of the most insightful, engaging and observant interviews I've ever come across in baseball, regardless of native tongue. Nobody's upset at him, ... I'm sure we'll get on him about it a little bit. We'll kid around about it. I can't wait to get one of the Who's Your Daddy T-shirts in New York. But it doesn't last. With the Red Sox and Yankees, every story has a 24-hour shelf life and then you're on to something else. It's not that big a deal.

I don't think that perception is accurate, ... I think I've said it many times In my job, I probably do baseball about 15 percent of the time. And I'm a believer that you leave the baseball decisions (to) those who live it every minute of every day. And Ed certainly would be among that number.

The Dodgers have opened the door for me to take the first step toward my dream. This will be a good experience for me as a baseball player. It will be a challenge from this point and I hope to produce.

This is the classic case of corporate paranoia. If they try to make the case that consumers are confused as to what is being sold here, that's absurd. You don't even have to be a baseball fan to recognize the difference between a Yankee Hater logo and a Yankees logo.

Kirby played the game with such passion and enthusiasm that he was beloved by players and fans throughout all of baseball.

It's more than strange, it's disturbing. Baseball was the sport growing up in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers were everybody's life. Then, all of a sudden, they're leaving. They're going to a foreign place. I was angry. I never lost that anger.

We try to find chemistry we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

People around college baseball are excited. I have a college-aged son who said he wants one. My assistant's son is 10, and it's, 'Can I have one, Mom' We're reaching a different market than guys my age 57.

Harold is the Pied Piper of Little League baseball,

This might be the loosest team in baseball history. I think it's a credit to the guys in this room. We never quit, we never get down, and when we lose a game ... we come back the next day and give it our best shot. And when you have a guy like Roy, who wins 20 games even though we didn't score any runs for him, you have to like your chances.

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

It's still just a baseball game.

First off, it's one of the historic franchises in baseball, ... These types of positions don't come around too often. I think it's a very good fit. I view it as a step up. If I thought it was a lateral move I wouldn't be coming down here. I feel I have more authority, more decision-making abilities with the Orioles than I do with the Mets. That's the reason I'm here.

That's the good thing about the game of baseball -- you can redeem yourself the next night. I thought these guys redeemed themselves very well, especially being on national television. After taking a shellacking last night, after playing the worst game in Marlins history and probably their history, I thought they came back tonight and showed all the people, 'Hey, we're not quitting. We're not giving up.' We may get beat, but we're not giving up.

Sports art, you know, through the ages, has been something that is very accessible to the masses. So, I have been trying to have mine that are more concept driven. They are accessible just because it's a baseball player but it's very multi-leveled as far as concept.

You're not just representing the people of Cincinnati, you're representing everybody. It was different. You'd see all the flags and the people yelling and the uniforms. The language barrier was a little tough. But for the most part, everybody understood one thing - baseball.

Last year, obviously we had two bites at the apple. This year we've got three, and we've got two more to go. We've got one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball going, and we've got another dominant pitcher going the night after that. So we feel, certainly, very well set up for it.

That's the farthest he's gone, and I didn't want the game to end for him on a sour note. There's a lot of baseball left.

The baseball here is just a lot of fun right now. The kids all love baseball. They love to play it and they love to watch it. They're excited to be a part of this program and they take a lot of pride in it.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

We'll talk about pitching for a minute, but it's not part of our life together. My escape from baseball is her.

He was playing terrific baseball. He was playing great defense and he was one of our hot bats. This is a big blow for us. He's a guy we're going to miss.

A lot of guys do stuff off the field. As a baseball player, and that's what it's about, I would love to see him in the Hall of Fame before he dies. Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Everybody wanted to play like Pete Rose.

This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore.

I was really pleased with the pitching today because last weekend we threw the ball up in the zone a bunch. Our guys really kept it down this week and it was closer to good Twin Falls baseball.

He's a no-nonsense guy. He knows what's going on in baseball. He wanted to get what we thought about the players.

We're happy with the effort. Unfortunately we hit some balls right at some people tonight and they didn't get through and that's baseball. It seems to be going like that for us, but we're going to catch our breaks.

This is baseball. I don't think there is anyone in the clubhouse here or in the coaches' room that played as long as we played that didn't just have an off year.

Different sports will have different challenges, ... Hockey has been done a little bit. I'm not aware of anyone doing basketball. It's sort of a starting spot with us for baseball. We have talked about doing this for our NHL package. We're still fine-tuning that for the winter.

You've got to make fun of people. You've got to get made fun of. That's part of baseball.

Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what you did in your last at-bat or even your next at-bat.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.