Quotes About Baseball

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.

HAD TO GO to America for a while to give some talks. Going to America always does me good. It's where I'm from, after all. There's baseball on the TV, people are friendly and upbeat, they don't obsess about the weather except when there is weather worth obsessing about, you can have all the ice cubes you want. Above all, visiting America gives me perspective. Consider

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.

After Lou heard my Guthrie song, he asked me if I ever wrote any songs about baseball players.

Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody's always going on about—he wasn't no home-runner hitter or fly bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.

Nuestro héroe no era uno de esos dominicanos de quienes todo el mundo anda hablando, no era ningún jonronero ni fly bachatero, ni un playboy con un millón de conquistas.

way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man

he had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.