Quotes About Baseball

The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.

The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball.

More than other sports, baseball, Halberstam observed, depends on statistics because they give meaning to the game's mythology. A player's "performance is not fulfilling enough," he wrote. "It must be shown in quantified heroics, records to be set and broken, new myths and heroes to replace the old."9

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.

I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

I would not be where I am now without the efforts of so many Canadian baseball people and the fans of Canadian baseball.

A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.

I just want to be in the lineup. If I'm on that lineup card I'm happy.

I've been happy to have been here since my first day, and I'm going to be happy to retire as a Cardinal because this organization means a lot to me and this city means a lot to me.

Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.

Any opportunity to throw against the Cardinals is going to be a good one.

I got my first baseball cards as a four-year-old, the 1989 Topps set. I got every Topps set after that.

I'm a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards.

I think that, because of the way I catch, that I'm one of the best catchers to have ever played baseball.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.

I really didn't have a favorite Major League catcher in college, but I would watch a lot of games. If one was on, I'd try to pick up little things from whomever was catching at that time.

Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That was his number one sport. He wasn't always heavyset like he is. But Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream he just gets charisma.

It was really cool coming back here to Chase Field. I played here in high school and went to a lot of games as a kid.

Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

I didn't ever realize that my ceiling would be this high, that I would be able to play at the major-league level. But here I am. I've been doing it for a while now, so it's certainly a blast. It's something that I want to cherish and make the most of.