“Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball?' ... I looked him in the eye. 'Sir, my daddy taught me two things in life -- how to play baseball and how to take responsibility for my actions. I learned the first one pretty well. The other, I've had some trouble with. Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball.'”
Pete Rose
“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
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Hank Aaron
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
Yogi Berra
“People think baseball players make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.”
Pete Incaviglia