D. B. Sweeney Quotes

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 was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

I know Reggie Jackson is a good player.

I like to hit with men in scoring position.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I love to talk about hitting. It's a passion of mine.

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don't really feel it.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.