There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
Dave Winfield

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
Dave Winfield

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Dave Winfield

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Dave Winfield

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Curt Flood

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

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
Kurt Russell

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Garth Brooks

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Garth Brooks

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

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

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

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
Sparky Anderson

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

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun