Quotes: Baseball

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn’t see ball players with curling irons.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

I’d like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

It’s tempting, because as one senator said to me, ‘We know if we invite baseball down, we’ll draw a crowd’.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn’t, and they ain’t eating.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.