Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off,… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to… — Ryne Sandberg Copy Share Image
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has… — Tony Oliva Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove at all. I've pitched in a lot of games. I've had far more good games than… — Brad Lidge Copy Share Image
John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third… — Judy Johnson Copy Share Image
There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us… — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. — Pete Incaviglia Copy Share Image
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one… — Sparky Anderson Copy Share Image
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the… — Rogers Hornsby Copy Share Image
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball,… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if… — Jim Leyland Copy Share Image
“While I’m no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing… — Honus Wagner Copy Share Image
Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what… — David Wright Copy Share Image
I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day.… — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name.… — Mohammad Azharuddin Copy Share Image
That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there,… — Don Cooper Copy Share Image
“what inning is the world in right now, would you say? Top of the ninth? Bottom of the ninth?” “Neither,” the pastor… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Growing up wanting to be a baseball player, then being able to have fans who respect you for how you play the… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wore the same Oakland A's hat for like six or seven years. It was faded white and green.… — Trevor Bauer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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