Quotes About Baseball

September 11, 1974 - Mets and Cardinals play 25 innings in the longest night game in history

April 4, 1982 - Joel Youngblood hits a single for the Expos in a game against the Phillies. A few hours earlier he got a hit for the New York Mets in Chicago before being traded. He is the only player to collect a base hit for two different teams in one day.

The "Eighth Wonder of the World" (Astronomer) introduced the world to artificial grass and indoor baseball.

Emshwiller stepped out of the pickup wielding a matte-black rifle with a large scope (it was actually an airgun that fired 6.26-mm slugs). She was wearing her most elegant blue dress and a backward baseball cap. "I wanted to look freaky," she says.

I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?

Thousands of hours they've been up studying and highlighting Bible passages while I've been sleeping, or watching baseball, or abusing myself carnally on a recliner.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

My job is to be ready, to be ready to pitch, however that is, however many innings that is, I need to be ready for that. I need to go in and do my job.

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

As far as I can tell, the baseball teams are run pretty darn well. I'm sure there's some better and worse, but I don't ever see a baseball team anymore and go, 'They're absolutely insane.'

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

The more those young fans get to understand that, 'Hey, this guy does some of the same things I do,' it creates a lot of interest and a lot of belief that they could become future big-leaguers. That's really where it starts, inspiring, entertaining and connecting with those young fans in a way that they can understand.

Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.