Baseball Quotes

You want to enjoy it. Hopefully, it'd come in a win. It would've been a little better and a sweeter if we were playing a little better baseball. - Mike Piazza

You want this whole environment to be fun for them. You want the game of baseball to be fun. You can have fun and also be involved in a businesslike manner and continue to utilize the techniques that we have been talking about over the course of these four days. You can get something done and have people going into the clubhouse with a good feeling about themselves. - Jim Tracy

You want baseball to be fun, but the fun comes from winning. - Joe Torre

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. - Jim Bouton

You sit there and you say at the start of the season that the best team wins after 162 games. And now you're down to the final three... We all know what the situation is. ... To think that it's come down to a handful of games to decide what 157 couldn't decide, that's great for baseball -- but not too good for my stomach. - Joe Torre

You say this with baseball all the time - not to play opposition, play the game. That's the key for us. Miami is kind of out of the equation. It's us. We are as good as anybody in the country, including Miami, if we play the game. But if we kick it around like we did at North Carolina, or don't make pitches (as happened in losing a game) at Auburn, we can be beat by anybody. - Jamey Shouppe

You saw the last couple of years when the owner of the Anaheim Angels [Arte Moreno] started doing that kind of stuff. Look at how many fans they put into every game now. I think it's a great idea. People think about money. Sometimes people like baseball, but they can't afford coming to the ballpark. - Danys Baez

You realize that baseball isn't your life any more. It's part of it, it's not your life. That's one of the biggest changes I've gotten from it. - Adam Everett

You never want to go to that hearing if you don't have to. It's a lot easier to go into spring training when you can avoid that confrontation. That's an ugly part about baseball. - Nick Punto