Baseball Quotes - Page 69

The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

Number one rule, attend to business