Quotes About Baseball

Now I think that guys who wear baseball caps with their sunglasses perched on the brims have guns, if—and this is important—the lenses of those sunglasses are mirrored or fade from orange to yellow, like a tequila sunrise.

It just felt like the Nationals wanted me the most. And I think they showed it by adding that sixth year and coming after me aggressively.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

Because of this drug thing, baseball doesn't care about the record holder. He's just standing out there. Baseball cares about the standard of excellence, and that means people will always look to Henry Aaron.

Henry Aaron is the standard of excellence.

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

A hotdog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

the unwashed and unworthy Red Sox finished off a sweep of the Cardinals and won their first World Series title since 1918. Edgar Renteria made the final St. Louis out, and he was wearing Ruth's number, 3, when he did.

Are you excited about the opening of the baseball season? Ah, the leather, the pine tar, the rosin–and that's just the hot dogs.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.

The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to win baseball games. But it's deeper than that.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That's great for the sport.