Baseball Comparison Quotes

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger accomplishment because of the few games they play over there.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

It's easier to go outside and play basketball. You can shoot around by yourself. Play pick-up. Whereas with baseball, no one likes putting a ball on a tee, hitting it, chasing it and putting it back on a tee. You need more than a few guys. So I was always in the neighborhood playing basketball with my friends.

I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

When I was younger, to be honest, watching Bo Jackson, I dreamed of playing both sports. But as I got older, the opportunities were much better in hockey than baseball.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.