Quotes of: Professional-baseball Keyword

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

John Malkovich

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Ichiro Suzuki

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

Doug Harvey

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.

Pud Galvin

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Phil Knight

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anthony Doerr

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

Rufus Sewell

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Dennis Rodman

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Elizabeth Blackwell

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

Robin Yount

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

Hedy Lamarr

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

Dylan Smith

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Jerry O'Connell

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Graham Joyce

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Carl Lewis

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 6: 1961-1962

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

Chuck Connors

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensiv...

Pete Rose