Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of working in an MLB front office and ruining baseball, but I have to settle for ruining 'Jeopardy' instead. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm… — Ken Griffey, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the… — Darin Erstad Copy Share Image
I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job… — Johan Santana Copy Share Image
I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got… — Mark Buehrle Copy Share Image
The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw. — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I… — Kyler Murray Copy Share Image
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
The Red Sox have obviously given me the opportunity to make my big league debut, giving me my extension. They blessed me… — Xander Bogaerts Copy Share Image
Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too… — Frank Robinson Copy Share Image
I guess when I consider my playing career, I think of No. 17. So when No. 17 was available with the Yankees,… — Aaron Boone Copy Share Image
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports. — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career. — Brad Lidge Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every… — Adam Wainwright Copy Share Image
Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the… — Ford Frick Copy Share Image
I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here.… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I… — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer,… — Bastian Schweinsteiger Copy Share Image
With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it… — Tim Wakefield Copy Share Image
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
The Dodgers told me a big bonus was no good, and they said other players would resent it. Better for me to… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Copy Share Image