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I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.
I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.
I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.
The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.
Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.
People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.