Frank Perdue Quotes

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to get a hit.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I always knew I could make it in baseball.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

In football, you can't always succeed.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.