I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about… — Chase Utley Copy Share Image
The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments. — Orel Hershiser Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S? — Harold Reynolds Copy Share Image
I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field. — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing… — Bobby Thomson Copy Share Image
You always want to score and get as many runs as you can, but certainly not at the expense of the team,… — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league… — Chuck Tanner Copy Share Image
I was a ball guy. I played basketball, baseball, football. I excelled in football the most. I played running back, wide receiver,… — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully,… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him… — Curt Young Copy Share Image
For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Life is like baseball...it throws strange things and you just like the pitcher throws that hard baseball...if you miss it the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
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