Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.
I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Never bet on baseball.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.