Quotes About Baseball

This is a strange game.

Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,

My suits that I wore on Baseball Tonight were in a heap, caked with drywall, which wouldn't be a big deal except it's hard to find 36-short suits other than at Nordstrom for Kids.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

I miss the ocean; I miss Fenway.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

I think October baseball is a lot of fun to follow, being a biased guy that enjoys the sport from time to time.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

I've always kind of had a deal with my wife where, in the off-season, I'm kind of clean-shaven, and during the season just kind of let it go.

The best players in this game are consistent, year in and year out. That's what I'm trying to do on defense. It's harder to do on offense, but I'm trying my best to do that, too.

I believe in my heart that the name of the game in baseball - from an offensive perspective - is getting on base and not making outs.

It is exciting for me to see the stats guys winning the battle and getting into MLB front offices.

Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.

If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.

It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

The only time I think about my contract is when I'm asked about it by the media.

The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.