Quotes About Baseball

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It's not something I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to get outs as fast as possible.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

Within the sports world, I think it'd be cool to go be part of a baseball game or basketball game - just something different to see what that feels like.

There's just something about telling another giant in the New York baseball scene that you thought he was Derek Jeter.

Baseball's just something that's always been a part of my family. My dad did it, my brother did it, I grew up doing it.

I literally love Justin Verlander.

I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

I never had an understanding of Billy Martin. I did not accept the way he managed me. I did not accept the way he managed Ken Holtzman. I thought there was anti-Semitism there.

When you're in the backyard as a kid playing and falling in love with the game and you crush the ball? You do a celebration. You stand and watch it like Ken Griffey Jr. You put your hands in the air like Manny Ramirez. You don't hit the ball and put your head down and run as fast you can. That's not fun. It's okay to embrace that part of a game.

I was always a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan growing up.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

I would compare kicking to being a closer in baseball. This whole game gets played, or the cake is made in front of you, so to speak, and you have to turn around and put the icing on the cake.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

I kind of want to go play in the Caribbean Series to be honest. I'm not even kidding about that.

I love all kinds of caps and hats, but my favourite is the baseball cap.

As a self-proclaimed doctor of love, I know a couple things to be true: One, when you get a chance to kiss a beautiful woman, you take it. Secondly, there's no crying in baseball or on video shoots.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

As an average hitter myself, I lacked that true back knee drive.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

You just can't label one player as an MVP. There are nine guys on the field.