Pastoral Resources

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Never bet on baseball.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.