I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so… — Tony Oliva Copy Share Image
I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball,… — Frank Thomas Copy Share Image
The whole goal is to put some barrels on the baseball and hope good things happen. Sometimes it turns into doubles, sometimes… — Corey Seager Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
During a lot of my struggles in the minor leagues, when I got upset and tried to do more, it just made… — Max Fried Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“If T. S. Eliot had stayed in St Louis, he would never have held that April was the cruelest month. Well, unless… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
“Here’s how you practice shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years: You… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to… — Nicole McKay Copy Share Image
When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a… — Dave Dravecky Copy Share Image
Particularly when I'm batting, I don't really hear anything that's going on. I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
Connie entered the game when it was a game for roughnecks. He saw it become respectable, he lived to be a symbol… — Connie Mack Copy Share Image
It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible.… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I transplanted my brain into 'HQ' and that's where the dark corners of my mind got exposed: Pop culture, '90s baseball, 'Simpsons,'… — Scott Rogowsky Copy Share Image
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
For me, that's the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw… — Trea Turner Copy Share Image
When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get… — Pedro Martinez Copy Share Image
I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me. — Cam Gigandet Copy Share Image
It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the… — Barry Bonds Copy Share Image
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk… — Rabbit Maranville Copy Share Image
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
Guys on second, if they pick up what set of signs the catcher's using, we'll relay it one way or the other… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad… — Billy Butler Copy Share Image
Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a… — Graig Nettles Copy Share Image
Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to… — David Grann Copy Share Image
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
I think I try to separate every single play, because like I said, if you're 0 for 3 with three Ks, the… — Trea Turner Copy Share Image
