Quotes About Baseball

I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.")

Listen, you have to understand something. In all of the history of professional sports, the Cubs are the ultimate symbol of complete failure. The championship of baseball is something called the World Series, and it's been so long since the Cubs have won it that no one who is alive could remember the last time they won it. It's so long that no one alive knew anyone who was alive when they won it. We're talking centuries of abject failure here.

the Cubs ought to have been demoted to the minor leagues after they went two centuries without a World Series championship.

He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn't know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow.

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.