"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
- Rogers Hornsby, Big Leaguer (1915-37)
"I believe in the Rip Van Winkle Theory: that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark and understand baseball perfectly."
- Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball (1969-1984)
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- Earl Weaver, Baltimore Orioles Manager (1968-1986)
There's one word that describes baseball -- 'You never know.'"
- Joaquin Andujar, Pitcher (1976-88)
"Basketball is exciting enough but Baseball is DRAMATIC."
- Bram Hutwagner, Powell player 1996-2002
"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young."
- Roger Angell, author
"We should do this every year!"
-Anonymous parade watcher on opening day '06
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so"
- Yogi Berra, Yankee (1946-63) and/or Mark Twain, author
"When I was young my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
-Nomar Garciaparra, active big-leaguer
"I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for."
-Hank Aaron, Home Run King
"That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball."
-Bill Veeck (as in wreck)
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."
-Tommy Lasorda, Dodger Manager '76-'96"You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
-Joe DiMaggio, referring to Opening Day I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself."
-Jim Abbott (one-handed pitcher)
"Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run."
-Branch Rickey, baseball pioneer
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
-Babe Ruth (The Sultan of Swat)
"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them." -Hank Aaron
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