Quotes About Baseball

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don't see how cool and exciting this game is.

My intent for the Angels is we're going to play extremely well.

The Cubs have never expressed any interest in re-signing me, as far as I know.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

Unlike the Houston Astros hitters, nobody hit the garbage bins for us. We had to react to pitches on skill with no warning and we won."

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.

Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did it in 1968. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas, broken as many team rules, or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards that year.

McLain this early in the game? It was a loaded

Red Sox fans will always remember Game 4 for three big moments: (1) Dave Roberts's ninth-inning stolen base; (2) Bill Mueller's single that tied the game; and (3) David Ortiz's 12th-inning home run that won it.

Ortiz into deep right field. Back is Sheffield," FOX-TV announcer Joe Buck said making the call, and then as the ball landed over the wall, "We'll see you later tonight!

The series moved back down to Yankee Stadium for Game 6, where Schilling would get a second chance to make 55,000 Yankees fans shut up, but first there was the serious matter of the torn tendon in his right ankle.

The second half of the baseball diamond is about good works. It is not at all separate from the first half, which is about belief, but grows out of that belief and gives it integrity.

You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.