If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.Lou Brock
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.Jim Courier
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. Mike Schmidt
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others. Tris Speaker
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. Derek Jeter
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. Casey Stengel
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. Christy Mathewson
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. Maurice Greene
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. Kobe Bryant
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.Kobe Bryant
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. Ken Harrelson
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. Tom Seaver