Anywhere Quote by Billy Evans

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset…

— Mark Teixeira

There's a cumulative effort within the course of a game, a series, and a season, too, where you see so many pitches and have…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all…

— Michael Lewis

In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my…

— Albert Belle

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

— Durwood Merrill

It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that,…

— Jake Arrieta

It's an honor to get compliments from anybody associated with baseball.

— Trea Turner

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting…

— Phil Taylor

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters…

— John Updike

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

— Joe Garagiola

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

— George Pataki