Baseball Quotes · Page 30

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd…

— Casey Affleck

My parents didn't want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no,…

— Kamaru Usman

“I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!”

— Jarod Kintz

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

— Rickey Henderson

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

— Walt Whitman

I'm a baseball player and showing up to a baseball field to not do anything baseball related... It's not fun. It takes…

— Chris Sale

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

— Gabe Paul

I didn't grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball.

— Morgan Wallen

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

— Branch Rickey

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

— Rogers Hornsby

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to…

— Michael Jordan

I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to…

— George W. Bush

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

— Anthony Rendon

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give…

— Terry Bradshaw

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball,…

— Nellie Fox

When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell…

— Tommy Lasorda

I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have…

— Thomas Boswell

“Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox' 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez)…

— Michael Gee

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I…

— Mike Piazza

I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just…

— Jameis Winston

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

To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.

— J. D. Martinez

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

— Heywood Broun

I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here.…

— Troy Aikman