I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base…

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

— Macklemore

I've played third base for a couple years. I did well, and I thought I was an elite player at that position, but at…

— Manny Machado

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get…

— Carl Crawford

Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.

— John Updike

He was a happy-go-lucky man, always played with a smile on his face and never had a bad word to say about anyone.

— John Parrott

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir,…

— Arturo Toscanini

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.

— Frank Gore

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and…

— Roberto Alomar

Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game…

— Andrew McCutchen

I'm usually the little kid that runs around all excited that he's just in the big leagues playing the game of baseball.

— Francisco Lindor

I love the game of baseball.

— Nomar Garciaparra

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919,…

— Waite Hoyt

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

— Joaquin Andujar

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their…

— George Will

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

— Anthony Rendon