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Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Speed slows down the game.

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

Swing at the strikes.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

Thank God for baseball.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Thank you... adjustable baseball caps with no logo on the front and mesh netting in the back, for being a great way to say, 'Hi, I'm over 80 years old.'

that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.