I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
When Casey Stengel was putting his mark on all four New York baseball teams, he came off as many things. I have to admit I never thought of him as anybody's uncle.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
