Jay Hernandez Quotes

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

All I want to do is play baseball.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

I always get very calm with baseball.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

I'm really bad at baseball.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.