(3018 quotes found)
“Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.”
Bill Klem
“I will not re-transmit without the express permission of Major League Baseball”
Nancy Cartwright
“The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.”
Michael Lewis
“If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.”
Mike Schmidt
“If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.”
Derek Jeter
“There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.”
Tommy Lasorda
“Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become”
Mary McGrory
“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”
Bill Lee
“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”
Peter Ueberroth
“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.”
Carl Yastrzemski
