Andy Van Slyke Quotes

I have a very round mound of rebound thing going on. I was a surprisingly good shooter, too. If I could have any job in sports, though, I'd want to be playing first base for the Yankees.

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

Darren Erstad was special to watch when he moved from center field from first base.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.

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.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

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

That boy Mantle is a good one.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

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

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.