Quotes About Baseball

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

I got Neil Walker now as my new second baseman. He's great. He looks comfortable there. He knows what he's doing. That's the second baseman you want to play with.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseball, and I just remember walking through the halls, and there's all these crucified Jesuses. It's scary.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

I've played almost 22 years in the major leagues, and I've never sat on the bench.

Never bet on baseball.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.

I always go back to when I was a kid and thinking about playing in the big leagues, so now that I've played in a thousand games, it's a cool accomplishment.

I never thought I'd get drafted, let alone make the big leagues.

I was happy to be drafted. I was happy to be playing professional baseball. And I was happy to be in the big leagues.

My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.

It's an honor and a blessing to be part of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

Elite baseball mechanics feel different in the bodies of MLB players than they appear on film.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.