When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
I always get very calm with baseball.
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
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 over the place, all the time.
I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.
In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.
A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
