Quotes About Baseball

In fact, I have reached the point where I don't see the value of switch-hitting at all.

As with any motor skills movement, the act of hitting a baseball needs to be consciously learned, then subconsciously performed. This assures spontaneous reaction.

We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.

There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.

The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking into the clubhouse, I tried to introduce myself to people like, 'Hey, I'm in the booth.' And they were kind of confused, like, 'You're a female, I don't understand.'

In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.

Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

You see people say: 'He should go back to baseball. He should do this; he should do that.' Those are people who said I would never even make it here. There's always another hurdle to go over, and it's fun to use that as motivation.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.

I do, however, happen to possess a pretty good memory and can at a moments notice name the lineup of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and all but one or two of my ex-wives.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

But ours is not a dystopia. Life is still tolerable and in some ways pleasant, with little amenities such as baseball continuing. However, we no longer think big. We no longer aspire to great things. We aspire to little more than just keeping life going.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?