Quotes About Baseball

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

My friends and family know I love playing baseball - Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!

Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

He slides into second with a stand up double.

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.

'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.