Quotes About Baseball

The Astros are going to be a dynasty.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

I thought I'd be an English teacher and a baseball coach somewhere.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

Baseball was the escape. I played all throughout my childhood.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.

In the aftermath of events such as Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, people want to know whether they were caused by climate change. These are bad questions and no answer can be given that is not misleading. It is like asking whether when a baseball player gets a base hit, it is caused by his .350 batting average. One cannot say "yes," but saying "no" falsely suggests that there is no relationship between his batting average and the base hit.

In the two weeks following the All-Star Game, baseball was largely upstaged by the events of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's seven perfect 10.0 scores, Bruce Jenner's record-setting decathlon triumph, and the five gold medals won by U.S. boxers Howard Davis Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Leo Randolph, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks—the mightiest performance of any American boxing team in Olympic history.

If a runner is scoring the winning run in a game (because it is the last half of the last inning of the game and his run will put his team ahead), the batter in that play must also touch first base. The batter cannot give up running because he thinks his team has already won.

In 1973, the New York Yankees became the first team to use a designated hitter (often referred to as the "DH").

Like the foul lines, the foul poles are actually in fair territory.

The foul lines extend through the batter's box, even though the white chalk lines are not drawn there. If a hit ball bounces within the batter's box, but inside the imaginary foul lines, it will be a fair ball.

A manager may move a pitcher to a different playing position and later that inning move him back to pitch again. If he does, he cannot move him again during that same inning.

pitch. Guess where it went? Yeah, it sailed into the stands and hit Alice. It broke a bone in her knee! That lady was not having a good day. Deion Sanders is the only person in history to hit a home run in a Major League Baseball game and score a touchdown in the National Football League in the same week! The most valuable baseball card in the world is a Honus Wagner card from 1909–10. In perfect condition, it's worth more than two million dollars.

It was over. But I would have their baseball cards to help me remember them forever. And the rest is history.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. - Ty Cobb

A pro baseball coach began a season-opening speech to his players by saying, "I was so nervous about talking to you today," and the players responded by smiling sympathetically—they were nervous

I think this is a sport where we can really challenge all of ourselves as baseball fans, as baseball players, even the casual viewers. It's just good to think, What can we do that hasn't been done?

As Major League Baseball struggles to overcome its staid image and lure younger fans - according to Nielsen, most of the sport's TV viewers are over 50 - the simple bat flip has come to symbolize the culture war being waged within its ranks.

Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.