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...

This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I’m a slave to her will.

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

The mascot for the New York Mets should be a handshake. But first, let me wash my hands.

Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

I’m forcing [pitchers] to throw strikes, and when you do that, it makes baseball a lot easier. I felt like too many times last year I didn’t put any pressure on the pitcher.

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

That’s what happens when you’re thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

It shows you how good of a pitcher he was. He got in all that trouble, but baseball kept bringing him back.

We played solid and consistent baseball. That’s our goal, to be consistent as we can be.

Baseball isn’t just a game. It’s the smell of popcorn drifting in the air, the sight of bugs buzzing near the stadium lights,the roughness of the dirt beneath your cleats. It’s the anticipation building in...

We executed really well today and we didn’t do that this weekend. That’s the good thing about baseball, every time you come out you’ve got a new plate on your hands.

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.

Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just...

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I’d say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

I was feeling pretty good walking down that line and shaking hands with all of them. Baseball was no big thing to me. I figured anybody could play, but couldn’t anybody make a movie. That’s...

The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you.

I’ve always loved baseball. Ever since 6th grade, I was geared to becoming a baseball writer.

We’ve got a veteran team and we’re playing some good, solid baseball right now. There’s always room for improvement so we’ll just keep after it.

The genius of our institutions is democratic – baseball is a democratic game.

We believe the baseball bat is the murder weapon.

Our objective is to get to the playoffs and play good baseball. We’ll figure that out once that happens.

This really created a firestorm. This was just a case of power politics with the exile community versus the baseball league and baseball won.

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that’s baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn’t big enough, so I thought I’d give wrestling a shot.

I’ve been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Forget winning the World Series. I enjoyed playing baseball for the first time in a long time.

Playing baseball for pay – home runTeaching kids to play the game – priceless

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip

I remember watching a summer baseball game in Gorham a few years back. Off in the distance there was a kid on the schoolyard court. It was Jeff. He started to grow in high school....

You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to come out and attack them.

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

spirit, love of life and baseball.

If you put the ball in play in high school baseball, you’ve always got a chance. We’d been striking out quite a bit so far (this season), but we did a better job of putting...

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Freddie Freeman led all Braves’ starters with a (.282) batting average in 2011. Not bad for a rookie. Then again, this is the kid who hit his first big league bomb against none other than...

The most significant in Canadian baseball history, the finishing touch to Stern’s inside-the-park homer. It was a drive which brought the Dream Team to its knees.