Quotes About Baseball

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

I think it's very difficult to have fewer opportunities to have success and still execute. My favorite player was Barry Bonds, and he got so few opportunities.

For me, feeling good is line drives to left field.

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

When I was 6 years old I went to my first A's game at the Coliseum. It was the 1982 season and the A's went on to finish fifth in the American League West that year.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

When I was 16, I'd been cast in 'Fast Food Nation.' And while I was playing in a charity baseball game, I ended up breaking my arm about a week before filming was starting.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

I'd like to finish my career as a Brave.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

Tulo was the first one to tell me I needed to take pride in my defense. And he was right. You've got to take pride in it and want to be really good at it.

I've never seen baseball advertise for a job, and I've never heard of whites applying for a job. I mean, there's an old boy network, and it's lily white.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Whoever's hitting in front of you or behind you is going to determine how you get pitched, but there's nothing you can do.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.