Dave Martinez Quotes

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I don't know anything about baseball.

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.

I got a big Filipino family. That's what I love about being Pinoy: we all gotta surround ourselves with family; we all gotta laugh and do things together. I love it! It's family first.

When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.

I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.