Zitat des Tages über Baseball:
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
I love being in a city that's playing October baseball, where you can just feel everyone captivated by the ball club, everyone walking around tired from staying up late, prioritizing baseball above all else. It's a great phenomenon.
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
I am the best in baseball.
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
No, I've never played baseball in my life.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.
