And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
I don't know anything about baseball.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
There is but one game and that game is baseball.
I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.
Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
Baseball has been very good to me.
When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Baseball regards us as sheep.
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
Baseball is all about relationships, and in some ways, what know you and who knows you.
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
In baseball, you don't know nothing.
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
