Alvin Dark Quotes

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.

When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

If I wanted to win all my fights, I would be a Yankee fan. I'm a Cub fan.

If we can, like, be in the backyard playing baseball, I'd be the happiest kid in the world.

Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It's not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you're playing.

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. I'm always going to play the game with a smile on my face, blowing bubbles, sunflower seeds, whatever it is. That's just who I am.

It was a privilege to enjoy the national team and be part of a group that gave so much to our country, wear the shirt with great people.