I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.
I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.
Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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.
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.
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.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
Speed slows down the game.
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
Baseball gets better for whatever reason.