I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues.… — Bruce Sutter Copy Share Image
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they… — Alvin Dark Copy Share Image
The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile… — Joe Garagiola Copy Share Image
If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But… — Vernon Wells Copy Share Image
A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Once, as a 12 year-old boy, you've had the experience of seeing your team win the World Series, there is nothing that… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that… — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of trust in being selectively aggressive I guess. Looking for your pitch you can drive, but not… — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was… — Bryce Harper Copy Share Image
I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
“If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in… — Tee Morris Copy Share Image
One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when… — Roger Clemens Copy Share Image
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I am a pitcher. I am called out there every fifth day. When I can't be out there for my guys, for… — Chris Sale Copy Share Image
I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
“after all these programs and scholarships, after all the work done by organized athletics at all levels, the number of boys actually… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather… — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who… — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
There's not a ballpark I've ever played in as a visitor or home that has the historic feel and energy that Fenway… — Jake Peavy Copy Share Image
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played… — Lloyd Waner Copy Share Image
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
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I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where… — Christian Yelich Copy Share Image
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
Everyone is going to make errors. It's part of the game. Nobody wants it to happen. Of course, you feel bad. You… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the… — Matt Harvey Copy Share Image
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