Quotes About Baseball

I'm not ever going to be a big bat flip guy. I don't really care. But the guy on the mound might care, so that's a risk.

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

I think all major league players dream of being named MVP.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

was drafted as a shortstop right out of high school by the Giants and sent to their double-A team in Richmond, Virginia, the Flying Squirrels, which is where I got my nickname—the squirrel—

Johnny Sain. Nelson

We go through that grind—spring training, 162 games, playoffs, World Series—and you're close to those people. I think about them a lot, and every time I look at that ring, I see them.

Have I ever told you about my agreement with the ball?" Quisenberry asked Angell, who said no. "Well, our deal is that I'm not going to throw you very hard as long as you promise to move around when you get near the plate, because I want you back. So if you do your part, we'll get to play some more.

Doesn't every other field do that, when you have to make decisions with imperfect information in a probabilistic world? I don't think baseball's immune to that. So that's it: we're not trying to script it, we don't think they're robots. We've noticed that they're human beings and they have emotions.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.

A lot of my friends and guys who I have watched and grew up with and who have been at my house are Hall of Famers, and I just know them as Ozzie Smith, Eddie Murray, Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield... I know these guys like my older brothers and uncles, the guys who took care of me.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.

It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

Today, you hit .230, and you get a million and a half and think you're underpaid.

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.