Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
In baseball, there's always the next day
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.
I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
