Quotes About Baseball

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

Eddie is like one of those great relief pitchers in baseball who gets the strikeout at the right time. Belfour comes up with the great saves when you need them.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

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Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Baseball players, for example, are notoriously superstitious.

TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono...am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist high, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?

And he made a home run, and his team won the state championship. The greatest thing about this story is that every time my dad tells it, it never changes. He's not one to exaggerate.

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