I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.
Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?
Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
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.
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Swing hard in case you hit it.
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
