Eric Idle Quotes

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

My favorite player would probably be Steve Yzerman. He played in Detroit. I really liked the way he played and the way he handled himself.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

You have to retire before you can make the Hall of Fame.

I don't think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He's the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.

There are a lot of things that I remember about Dusty Rhodes. There are so many things that stick out about him. He used to work at my father-in-law's gas station pumping gas.

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

Kenny Bates is a legend.

Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven't been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.

I'm just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That's my motivation; that's what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list.