2,899 Quotes About Baseball

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

He's very quick, has a good bat and a great arm. It's nice to come and see him grow up as a person and a baseball player.

It was kind of weird. I thought it was a bill collector. I was ready to hang up until he asked, 'Is this the guy who plays baseball at Fort Hays State?' Then I became interested.

I was trying to get the ball in, and he was reminding me of that. In games, I have been missing over the plate. It was helpful to have him out there for a quick fix right in the middle of things.

Just in baseball terms, he's a leadoff hitter who can work the pitcher, make him throw up to 20 pitches. I'm sure Johnny Damon is going to come back to haunt us.

(My Dad) told me, 'You have the chance to go to UMass and be a good kicker and a decent baseball player,' ... 'or you can play big-time Division I football, now pick.'

I miss baseball badly, ... If I didn't get some sort of closure, which came with winning the state championship, I'd probably be somewhere playing baseball, too.

That was a very close play and probably could have gone either way. However, we got the call and it seemed like that really sparked our bats early.