Quotes About Baseball

I'm a huge baseball fan. Roger Clemens. That's my boy.

No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

I don't mind walking guys as long as I don't give up runs.

I'm here to drive in runs and do my part and play third base.

I like to hit with men in scoring position.

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

Scott Rolen is a guy I used to watch a lot.

Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

In 1958, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley broke countless hearts when he moved the team known as the Boys of Summer to Los Angeles - dumping the guts and grit of Ebbets Field for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.