Quotes about Baseball

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

How are you gonna score if somebody doesn't drive in the runs?

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.