Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
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.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
