General Stuff
I've seen enough of him lately that I'm starting to respect him a lot. When you're impressed by a guy you only see a couple times a year, obviously he must be something special. I'm sure his pitchers love him.
-- Paul O'Neill, talking about the high-five he gave Andruw Jones after AJ had robbed him of an extra-base hit
The Braves have three or four #1 starters, and haven't made it to the World Series in either of the last two years. We've been to the World Series in two of the last four years.
-- John Hart, spring 1999, using the New Math to justify the Indians' lack of a #1 starter. He neglected to mention that the Braves had also been to the World Series in two of the last four years... winning one more World Series than the Indians have won.
Baseball is really two sports- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.
-- Thomas Boswell
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is is disguised combat. For all it's gentility, it's almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
-- Willie Mays
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
-- Nolan Ryan
No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body...As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.
-- Sadaharu Oh
How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.
-- Ted Kluszewski