I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.
My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.
I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.
The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed. . . . . it's like he has cork in his arms.
Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game. . . There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world. "
God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.
Never let your dreams go away.
I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.