Quotes of: Baseball Keyword

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

John Thorn

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

Justin Verlander

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

Josh Henderson

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

Jane Leavy

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

Nolan Ryan

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.

Billy Herman

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

David Cone

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

Diego Klattenhoff

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Jacob Ruppert

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

Mike Krzyzewski

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Thomas Peterffy

Annie Kinsella: Ray! He's my favorite writer too, but what's Terence Mann got to do with baseball?

Field of Dreams

Hattori Hanzo: Funny, you like samurai swords... I like baseball.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

"The Babe": [looks at baseball card] Henry Aaron. I don't know why but can I have this, kid?

The Sandlot

Swan: [caught outside the subway by the Baseball Furies] Maybe we better take off... Ajax: Yeah, right... [they run]

The Warriors

Leonard Zelig: I love baseball. You know, it doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch.

Zelig

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

Stan Musial

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Tony La Russa

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Leo Durocher

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Barry Bonds

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

Callie Khouri