I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
I wanted to play baseball!
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
I just want to play baseball.
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
I had an addiction to play baseball.
I was born to play baseball.
I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
You sign a contract, and you abide by the contract. And sometimes my turn would come around on Sunday. Even though I didn't like to play baseball on Sunday, it was my job.
I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Baseball is a poorly run business.
The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
