Rogers Hornsby Quotes

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's the life I know. If I didn't love the life of baseball, I wouldn't work out like I do every winter.

I'm a baseball freak.

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

I'm not going to act like I'm this person that I'm not, because I operate bad in that space, you know what I'm saying?

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

All you need to do is know who you are.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

Beware of creating tedium!

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

I know my face better than anyone else.

I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!"