It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
Mark: You build a baseball field, and you sit here, and stare at NOTHING.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.
If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
