Brian Baumgartner Quotes

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

I always loved the signs on the outfield walls, and I'll never forget the one in Philadelphia. It said, 'The Phillies use Lifebuoy soap,' and underneath was scrawled, 'And they still stink.'

I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up in Queens, so when the Mets won the World Series that year, it was a big deal.

The best thing for the fans is having a team with a chance to win. That's what everyone wants.

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

If baseball was all year round, I'd play all year round.

I have so many memories of going fishing and camping as a kid, and my dad had season tickets to watch the Marlins - and that's where I fell in love with the game.

We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.

We had some great years in Portland. We went to the finals twice. We won 63 games one year. You can't tell me those weren't championship teams.

I think people don't enjoy it as much as they used to. People say, 'Make baseball fun again.' Well, I'm trying.

I've been around baseball for a really long time. I didn't know I could want to be here any more than I do, have any more love or passion for this. But being away, even for just a week, that was the worst. I didn't know what was going on. I never want to do that again.

I come from a city like St. Louis, where they consider themselves great baseball fans.

I base a lot off the team's success, and when the team's not playing well, you're getting your head beat in pretty much every night, it's tough to try and enjoy what you're doing.

It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a big reason for those championships.

For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That's what people remember.

In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.