He just thinks about baseball. He said he doesn’t go out. He just wants to go to the ballpark.

Who knows how the rest of baseball views you? … I can go home and sleep and know that we used tremendous character to get through this season.

This is Cuban baseball. Cuba is not gone. We’re still here to play and whoever wants to beat Cuba will have to sweat it out.

It’s kind of like, if I wasn’t in the game, if I wasn’t even part of professional baseball, if it wasn’t my job, I’d be excited just for the area. Just knowing we’re going to...

The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.

It’s kind of ironic. It was harder to keep baseball than it was to get baseball.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

In addition to meeting with clubs to discuss trade possibilities, we do expect our baseball operations staff will have conversations with agents for several of our current free agents as well as representatives for other...

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That’s what I need to learn...

This is what it’s all about — baseball in the fall,

I have a life besides baseball. This isn’t my life. I play because I can. A lot of people say Milton Bradley is a good person. I’m trying to be a good person. But anybody...

We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.

Pensacola has always been a baseball town. I want us to play as much here as possible. We want to put a good product on the field.

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

When I was growing up, it seemed like it was probably the most realistic movie about baseball life. Now that I’ve lived it, I can say that it is the most accurate.

Ted Williams hit 17 career grand slams. He is the toughest batter to get out in major league history. It was never fun for opposing pitchers to have to face him, but that was never...

I’m in charge? Okay, you’re traded. We’re putting Jim Baba (Baseball Canada director) in goal next game.

You can say, ‘Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.’ But you wouldn’t build it right. It’s better to make the accommodations, to save the old ballparks. If Fenway...

You want a piece of me?

I told John if he wanted to go back into baseball that I wouldn’t stand in his way, but that he has an important role with us. I told Frank he was welcome to talk...

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

It was a great baseball game,

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

We look forward to sitting back at the table with minor league baseball.

Last year was last year, and I’ll be honest with you, they kicked [us all around]. This is a new year. Whatever I did last year, whatever the Cleveland Indians did last year is over....

Just like baseball, it’s not all going to happen overnight. We are paving the way right now for the future teams, and there is no reason we can’t go to a regional or super regional,...

It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.

In too many games we played five or six innings of great baseball and then just cruised through the ninth. To be the dominant team we want to be we need to keep the pressure...

I had a dream about you. You were Mickey Mantle, and I was a fireplace without a mantle. I didn’t like baseball, so I kept telling you that you could do something productive with your...

Baseball had record crowds last year. Probably with Barry going to break the [home run] record, it will bump it up and more people will come out and watch it. That makes players more popular,...

That’s sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents’ home, which wasn’t that much.

They always say the most important pitch in baseball is Strike 1. It’s even more important now.

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I’d not make it. No. Never.

Although the Twins have a small profit, in order to keep up with the rest of Major League Baseball, they need a new stadium. The Twins have one of the worst stadium deals in all...

Doug is one of the most highly respected executives in baseball and this extension validates our belief that his leadership is vital to the Milwaukee Brewers continued development.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened...

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

I never liked baseball. Too much sitting around for me.

We haven’t been playing our best baseball. Everyone here wants to turn it around, and we think we can.

Since Red Sox fans are so intense and baseball’s a long, 162-game season, it helped that this team was as loose as it was, … If this team was as intense as its fans, it...

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

Like I always say, I’m just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets...

Betemit’s positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different...

Why would anyone want to fight Henry?” Loondorf looked hurt.”Because he’s a ballplayer.””So?””So he’s a baller. He’s got cash, chains, crisp clothes. He’s got a hat that says Yankees and it’s the real deal, yo....

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed of the pitches goes down: .210 at 99, .213 at 98, .225 at...

My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said “Batter up,”I didn’t argue that I wasn’t ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer...

I just want to challenge baseball people to come out and do something for these people. These people really need our help. All of us make enough money to donate something. Let’s put it together...