Quotes on Baseball

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can to honor him.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.