“I think he might have been the most explosive baseball player that I have ever seen, ... He could get down to first base as fast as anybody I have ever seen play the game. He could run like a deer, and that was something that stands out about him. Power and explosiveness.”
Bob Sheppard
“There are only two seasons -- winter and Baseball.”
Bill Veeck
“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.”
Rogers Hornsby
“Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.”
Casey Stengel
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.”
Nolan Ryan
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Hank Aaron
“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”
George F. Will
