Quotes About Baseball

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

My earliest memories of going to Fenway with my father are a blur: many games, me too young to care, but aware that our team 'stunk.' In those years, the 1960s, the Red Sox baseball card I always coveted most was not Carl Yastrzemski's but the far more ordinary Felix Mantilla's.

I'm a Red Sox fan, but I still have a lot of respect for Mariano Rivera, who's the best closer of all-time.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.

The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.

I don't want to be buried in a Red Sox casket.

I would like to own the Red Sox.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

Growing up, I was a big Red Sox fan and looked up to guys like Dustin Pedroia, who's obviously not the biggest guy, but the way he competes, the way he works, it was motivating for me.

It's definitely a dream come true playing for the Red Sox.

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

The tee drill should be a fixture in your hitting schedule, even after you think you've mastered everything there is to master in my system. There are major leaguers who hit off the tee every day before games, and even on their days off. Tony Gwynn works diligently at his fundamentals by hitting hundreds of balls off the tee every day.

And with each new pitcher a hitter must adjust and adapt to a new repetoire of pitches.

The point here is that getting started in time is critical. So when should a hitter start his stride? When the pitcher's lead leg hits the ground.

Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball, adjusting to the location and speed, and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time.