Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
Every one of my guy friends I played baseball with were Backstreet Boys fans as well. So it's not something I felt like I needed to hide.
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.
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.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
I go from my room to the ballpark and play baseball. I try to keep it simple.
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.