Harmon Killebrew Quotes

I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.

It's always tough playing away from home.

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I'm on the road I'll probably go to their services.

I traveled to many countries when I played. But wherever I went, it was a journey between an airport, a hotel, a stadium and a railway station or a bus terminal and I didn't have a chance to experience these places properly.

I don't believe that playing video games in the locker room is part of earning the right to win.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it's mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

I always love the locker rooms that I end up in.

One of my favorite things about the D-League was going on the road and losing and not having to talk to anyone after the game.

Playing away from home in Europe is never easy.

Part of what's important for me is for our players to play on the road.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point.

Gentleman, this is a football.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.