I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.
In baseball, there's always the next day.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.
I've spent 34 years associated with the Cubs, and part of the reason I've stayed in baseball is because I want to be part of a World Series winner.
I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.
I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
I love the game of baseball.
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
I'm not a fan of baseball really.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Baseball needs more superstars.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
I just want to play baseball.
With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.
As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?