Quotes About Baseball

I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don't, you don't.

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

Of course you don't want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to get other things that you want.

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

I bat righty.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I could always hit the ball really far, but you don't need to be strong to do that.

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It 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.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the 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.

B.C. sat back in his chair. "Whatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominicana. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

The national pastime is juiced.

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.