Baseball Game Quotes

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's very dangerous.'

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.