If I'm in the rotation, I'm in the rotation. If I'm not, I still will support the guys like I am in… — Tavon Austin Copy Share Image
Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot,… — Garrett Atkins Copy Share Image
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
When his football and baseball careers ended, my dad became an accomplished marbles player. Then dad got really good at pitching horseshoes.… — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you… — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is… — Sandy Koufax Copy Share Image
There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much… — Lou Boudreau Copy Share Image
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night,… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry. I know how much players have to focus, and I know not to be a distraction. I just got caught… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In my early work, my time in the batting cage, that's serious, and that's when I feel like I'm really working. That's… — Aaron Judge Copy Share Image
Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been.… — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Chase Stern steps out of the dugout and I lean forward, admiring the perfect fit of his pants, his confident stride to… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm proud to wear a Reds uniform, and I look forward to doing that until the last day of my Major League… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
Baseball is a beautiful sport, it's our sport. We have a responsibility as the baseball community to progress the game forward and… — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard. — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five… — Terry Vaughn Copy Share Image
George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
I don't know if I could go to another run-of-the-mill baseball department and work because it would probably feel like work. In… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up,… — Chick Hearn Copy Share Image
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman,… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“But then again, living is a gamble. We all wind up and deliver our pitch, and what happens after that—strike three, home… — Dirk Hayhurst Copy Share Image
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the… — Alex Bregman Copy Share Image
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put… — Charlie Manuel Copy Share Image
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say,… — Ted Willams Copy Share Image
