I was a happy kid. I played a lot of baseball with my big…

“If he had another brother he would call him. But for a brother he has only Jerry and Jerry has only him. For a…

— Philip Roth

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

— Richard M. Nixon

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

— Gerald R. Ford

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught…

— Joe Maddon

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

— Barry Sanders

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

— Casey Stengel

I was always a very athletic kid, and I always played as many sports as possible and always tried to do new things.

— Cesaro

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

— Jackie Robinson

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag…

— Sheryl Lee

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

— Fay Vincent

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man…

— Dick Gregory

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

— Julius Erving

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

— Tom Seaver