Quotes About Baseball

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

The professional game, in a lot of ways, sucks. It's not fun like 11-year-old baseball was or college baseball or high school baseball.

You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'

Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

When a team is not winning, someone must suffer. It's the same in baseball or anything else.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

Playing in Japan suits me the best, but what I need is in the Majors. I felt that in order to do my job, I needed to change my job location.