Quotes About Baseball

In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

The first time I went to Fenway Park was probably 1950. It was the early '50s, and it was my father taking me to the game.

I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.

Fenway Park is a fun place to pitch in. You've got 38,000 fans all cheering against you. It's an intense atmosphere.

I would love to throw out the first pitch at AT&T Park at a San Francisco Giants' game.

You can get caught up in the game, just like everybody else in the park. But I can't play favorites and hope this guy gets a hit or that guy gets an out. I have to make decisions based on data and common sense. I have to manage every game to win.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

While I continue to work towards another opportunity with the Majors, I'm excited to grow my partnership with SeventySix Capital.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

When Mathewson arrived in the majors, most first class and many second class hotels would not host big league teams for fear that the players' behavior would offend other guests. The hotels that did admit ballplayers often made them eat in a separate dining room. Players were well known for pinching waitresses and wrecking furniture, and if they didn't like the steaks they were served, they would nail them to the restaurant's walls.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

I've gotten to visit all the parks and put my name inside the Fenway wall.