I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
I keep telling myself, don’t get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.
Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.
I miss baseball.
I always get very calm with baseball.
Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It’s not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you’re playing.
It’s fun; baseball’s fun.
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don’t think about baseball. You don’t think about anything. It’s just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.
I’m an expert in baseball and I don’t even have a job. I’m an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I’m dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I’ve earned it.
I love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am.
Obviously, being a diehard Mets fan, my passion is a given, but I also love playing baseball. I hadn’t been able to participate since high school, when the game became a little too fast for me.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
I like baseball. I think that’s the main thing. I enjoy playing the game.
I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Baseball has been very good to me.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That’s my motive.
I’m not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things – not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don’t go together. You can’t be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You’ve got to let go of the diet that day.
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn’t tell me there’s a thing called the curveball. I didn’t know that. So the ball’s coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, ‘Strike one!’ And I’m saying, ‘How is that a strike? It almost hit me!’
If you’ve ever been around a group of actors, you’ve noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It’s exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Baseball has all the money.
We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller’s stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world.
Wrigley, beyond its status as a baseball icon, has an undeniable positive energy all its own, which penetrates all who enter its gates.
