We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you ...
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
[after Dr. Graham crosses the foul line to help save Karin] Mark: [suddenly able to see the White Sox players] Where did all of these baseball players come from?
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spani...
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European socce...
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
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.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he becam...
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
