Playing Baseball Quotes

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

I had to come out on stage with my little staff and robe and I had this sun on top of my head that my mom made - that was the first time I was ever on stage singing in front of anybody. I realized that I was one of the best acts of the night but I didn't give singing much thought after that. I was really into playing baseball.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

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.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.