Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

I was a tomboy. And one of my first recollections of great success was playing baseball with the boys.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.

I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

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