Ted Lyons Quotes

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

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

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

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

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They're pretty tall, and they can do everything.

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

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

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

Because our father played professional soccer, being in the spotlight never felt weird to me and my brother. We always felt we could do anything.

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.