Pastoral Resources

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

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.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.