Quotes About Baseball

I have the speed. People said, 'Just hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball, just get on base.' But I wanted to be able to hit home runs. I wanted to be able to bunt, steal bases, play defense.

If I can get on base once or twice a game, steal a bag, do something, then I'm happy.

If the opportunity is there to steal a base, I try to steal it.

I don't really look at the catcher at all. I think you steal bases off the pitcher.

Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Sometimes you are going to have to games where you are going to have to manufacture runs, stealing. Particularly when you face real good pitching.

As soon as I finished skating, watching video of me stealing baseball bags was funny.

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

I let the players use their abilities and what they're capable of doing. If they're capable of stealing bases, I'm going to give them the green light. I'm going to teach them to pick their spots and to get a base when they can get a base.

I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

Sign stealing has been a part of the game forever.

I've literally had dreams of that moment since I was a kid, no joke, about stepping in for my first at-bat.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

Klum stood on the mound, a big beast with a snarling face.

With a 1–2 count, he had to try. The game—and maybe Sam Palomaki's future—was on the line.

Being a Dodger, being a third baseman, elite, one of the best. He was a really special player. Hall of Famer. No question about that. He has longevity. Everything you want in a player, Adrian Beltre does that.

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.