No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
Baseball is a man maker.
Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.
That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.