Quotes About Baseball

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

Is it of any significance I wonder that the two countries of the Western Hemisphere whose governments the United States would most like to overthrow - Venezuela and Cuba -have the greatest National obsession with baseball outside of the United States?

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as someone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. - Ted Williams

I never expected to lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out seventy percent of the time he goes to bat.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

In 1929, the defending world champion New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians became the first team to wear permanent numbers sewn into the backs of their uniforms. Starting players were given numbers that matched their usual place in the batting order.

At seasons end the Yankees retired Gehrig's No. 4, making his the first retired number in baseball.

In February of 1921, the Yankees purchased 10 acres of property from the estate of William Waldorf Astoria at 161st St and River Ave in the west Bronx, directly across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. Yankees owner Rupert and Tillinghast Huston announced the construction of baseball's first triple-decked structure. With a capacity of over 70,000, it would also be the first structure to be called a "stadium.