Quotes of: Baseball-player Keyword

Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And...

William D. Cohan

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satis...

Bjorn Borg

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

Bill Veeck

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

Peter Ueberroth

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Ty Cobb

Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

Laraine Day

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

Mariano Rivera

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

Mariano Rivera

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Willie Stargell

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

Bill Terry

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

Mackenzie Astin

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Jim Evans

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

Eli Roth

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

Frank Perdue

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Bob Kerrey

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

Bob Lemon