Baseball Quotes - Page 7

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.