Marge Schott Quotes

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

Being involved with the first team, be it in the Premier League or the Europa League, you just have to take it as it comes. You keep all the nerves inside and just play your normal game.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

I know that I can play in the middle, on the right, or up front.

Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.

In Brazil, the coach respects the player's characteristics. In Europe, they are used to playing with two lines of four players, and they don't want to know what you can do. There, if you are a forward, the coach sends you on to the pitch just to run. You have to run, and that's it.

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.