Craig Sager Quotes

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

When I was younger, I never had that fascination.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.