Pastoral Resources

Baseball has been very good to me.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

I was born to play baseball.

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.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I don't know anything about baseball.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

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.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.