I would not be where I am now without the efforts of so…

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

— Joey Votto

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I…

— Tom Guiry

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus…

— Richie Ashburn

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and…

— Roger Angell

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of…

— Michael Lewis

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows…

— Marcus Giles

“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human affairs. Baseball—of…

— Michael Lewis

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to…

— Branch Rickey

You see people say: 'He should go back to baseball. He should do this; he should do that.' Those are people who said I…

— Pat Connaughton

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

— Ken Griffey Jr

We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many…

— Johan Santana

“Though we often throw around the idea, there really is no sacred Church of Baseball-there are only the people who built it and the…

— Stacey May Fowles

You want to impact your community, not just in terms of playing baseball, but you can give people a little bit of an inside…

— Kyle Schwarber

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably…

— Pat Connaughton