Quotes About Baseball

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

To my mom, I don't know how to describe my mom. She is the most wonderful person in my life. She gave me love. She took me to the ballpark when I was just a little boy running around, hanging around.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

I had the world's greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how my Little League team was doing.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

If we can, like, be in the backyard playing baseball, I'd be the happiest kid in the world.

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.

I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.

It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

If you would have told me when I was a kid that I would be sitting here with an ACC championship and been drafted in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball draft, I would have taken it in a heartbeat.

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Rooting for the Dodgers once would have been heresy within my New York family.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.