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He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.
I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.
If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.
Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Looking scary with a baseball outfit on and a little bouffant, you know, it just does not work. Especially with sculpted eyebrows.
And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.
To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.
Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.
I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.
I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.
The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.