You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire. — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me. — Mike Trout Copy Share Image
I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches. — Jason Bay Copy Share Image
I love nothing more than going out there and competing. And baseball's my outlet to do that. — Max Fried Copy Share Image
Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I thought tennis was a boring sport. Football and basketball and baseball were the cooler sports to play in America. So those… — Ben Shelton Copy Share Image
I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good,… — Roger McDowell Copy Share Image
To go from not being recognised at all to literally, the next day, having people stop you in the street was very,… — Natalia Dyer Copy Share Image
People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch… — Greg Maddux Copy Share Image
It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek.… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
When you look back at the '90s and early 2000s, pitchers took a lot of pride in it. They got the bunts… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better.… — J. Conrad Guest Copy Share Image
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the… — Tyson Gay Copy Share Image
I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
