I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.
On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I'd get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I'd lose eight to ten pounds.
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.
Baseball wasn't easy for me.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
