My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic...

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win...

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Everyone knows that basketball isn't really my thing, baseball is.

My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine innings of Taiwanese baseball.

Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts.

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

Baseball is a team game.

I'm either playing baseball or I'm on my PlayStation.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the...

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Baseball has been very good to me.

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the...

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated...

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were...

For me, this is what I've loved to do since I was 3 years old. I was running around little baseball fields watching my older brother play, and I've been throwing the ball since I can remember. And I'm...

I've played outfield growing up and first base.

There's a lot of baseball players who give their best effort all of the time. But one kind of gets away from them. You're human. You make errors.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

I appreciate the fans of baseball, and especially Boston fans. Just like me, they have high expectations and they'll let you know when you're not doing what they want you to do.

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

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice...

I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

Sometimes you are going to have to play games where you are going to have to manufacture runs, stealing. Particularly when you face real good pitching.

I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every...

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.