Zack Greinke Quotes

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

I grew up around a lot of the major leaguers, guys like David Wright, Pedro Martinez, Jose Reyes, and I think that's what really helped me. You see the routine they get, the humility they have.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

People think that football is all glamour and money but trust me all footballers go through the same boring and annoying things as everybody else.

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.

I am a professional player, and I will naturally do everything to be in goal.

It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.

From the level, both leagues are equal. You'll win no game easily. It's always a lot of work. This is true in La Liga as well as in the Bundesliga. You must always give all you have.

I'm sad to have left Spain because in my opinion LaLiga is an exceptional, unique and extraordinary league.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

I think when guys watch me play, I think that raises the level of other guys because of the way I play the game.

Snooker's only popular in China now. Well China's OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.

Football is only about money, and I don't like it.

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.