There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.
It was a terrible psychic blow. . . Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball. " "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.
This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
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.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
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.
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.
You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
If you want to maximize your total potential. . . you have to know yourself first.
For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.
Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.
I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
If U. S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.