Quotes of: Professional-baseball Keyword

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Khaled Hosseini

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

Larry MacPhail

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

L. Jon Wertheim

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Barry Bonds

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Tony La Russa

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Bo Jackson

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

James Caan

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Nick Johnson

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Brooks Robinson

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

Finn Wittrock

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Chuck Tanner

I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

John Cullum

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Erma Bombeck

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Bill Goldberg

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

Burleigh Grimes

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden