I’d rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
When I’m not at work, I put deep conditioner in my hair and wear a baseball cap. I’ll just roll around on the off-days with goop in my hair, and then just rinse it out.
I’m not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, ‘Your wife is terminally ill.’ Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, ‘Something happened with the plane,’ that’s devastating.
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
Baseball, while you’re doing it, you think it’s going to last forever.
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
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.’
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It’s hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
There’s a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That’s baseball.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don’t have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I did ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Adulthood,’ and that’s what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do ‘hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying ‘Yo Blood’ and beating up others in the street.
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I’ll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.
I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
They say in baseball, your little flaws will stick with you from the start. It’s just how you can maintain and minimize them.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The – generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The – if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy – Ken Singleton – Flanny, and Cakes – the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer – were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I’m in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that’s it, as far as the radio.
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
I loved being on the set of ‘Field of Dreams’ because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
I don’t like American football. I think it’s boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It’s played on a diamond.
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents – judges’ decisions – rather than statutes, baseball’s codes are the game’s distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
I go from my room to the ballpark and play baseball. I try to keep it simple.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
It’s a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn’t want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Baseball is a lot like life. It’s a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
That’s what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There’s not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.
I’m truly passionate about basketball. I’m not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
I’m just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
You know, I’m from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
Babe Ruth didn’t become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.
It’s a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.
I don’t know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team… that’s throwing the game.
I’d never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn’t much of a reality.
Baseball hasn’t been the national pastime for many years now – no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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.
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
