I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
Gerald R. Ford

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will

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.
Martha Stewart

I wanted to play baseball!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Mickey Mantle

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Pete Rose

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
Pete Rose

Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
James Caan

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
Nolan Ryan

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan