Quotes About Baseball

I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn't work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms.

To see if "cluster theory" explained the success of the teams in Tier One, I turned to baseball. In this sport, as I noted earlier, teammate interaction plays a limited role while the performance of individual players has a larger impact.

He wore the baseball cap

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year...unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.