Tim DeKay Quotes

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

I'm really bad at baseball.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

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

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

I always get very calm with baseball.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

All I want to do is play baseball.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.