Quotes About Baseball

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

Randy Johnson had a tell. If he thought you knew what was coming, he would hit you. So that was his tell. That's probably, that's a tell. That's a tell from Randy Johnson. He'd hit you, happily.

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.

In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

Catchers just aren't glamorous.

What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

It was a tremendous honor to win the Gold Glove because I've always taken a lot of pride in my defense.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

A lot of people think I just came to this game to make the money and go home. I love this game. I play because I love it.

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.