Quotes of: Sox Keyword

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

Charles Krauthammer

I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.

Bill Buckner

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

Terry Francona

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Waite Hoyt

Boston got Roberts on the July 31 trade deadline—exchanging prospect Henri Stanley for the fleet-footed outfielder. Roberts fittingly got 86 at bats for Boston, but it was his speed on the bases that the Red Sox sought—and it was his speed that b...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Julianna Baggott

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

John Baldacci

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

Dick Williams

I am a huge Red Sox fan.

Cass Sunstein

If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

Billy Corgan

I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.

Tim Wakefield

Billy Beane: [having declined a $12.5 million offer to GM the Red Sox] I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again.

Moneyball

Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason that cemented his legacy in Boston.

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Ted Williams hit 17 career grand slams. He is the toughest batter to get out in major league history. It was never fun for opposing pitchers to have to face him, but that was never more true than it was when there was nowhere to put him—and his gra...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

He [Ted Williams] was only a 23-year-old kid when he batted .406 in 1941, but then the season ended and our country came under attack at Pearl Harbor—and by 1943 he was a Marine fighter pilot serving overseas who cheated death on several documented...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history—and then seven days later clinching the World Serie...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

It took only three years for Jonathan Papelbon to surpass Bill Campbell, Lee Smith, Tom Gordon, Sparky Lyle, Derek Lowe, Jeff Reardon, Ellis Kinder, and Dick Radatz as he climbed the franchise leader board into second place all-time for saves. Papelb...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports