Major League Quotes

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

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

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

Baseball is our national game.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

I'm in the major league now.

I'm really thankful for the opportunity the Marlins gave me. They drafted me in 2010 and gave me a chance to play in the big leagues. I made lifelong friends there, and I've got a lot of great memories.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Baseball's my life.

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

Baseball has been very good to me.