Quotes About Baseball

We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller's stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world.

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. —A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER

Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

I've got a Don Baylor, J.T. said. California sucks this year. Ralph snickered. I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

For me, being involved in a no-hitter or a perfect game is one of the most exciting things in baseball.

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

If you're playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that's everyone's goal. But then what? For me, it's about the legacy you leave off the field.

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably not that athletic.'

Living in Los Angeles and having three little kids, it's hard following the Orioles.

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

I like baseball. I think that's the main thing. I enjoy playing the game.

That's the thing about pinch-hitting - you usually have a chance to make a difference in the game.

Of course managers win ball games.