Gaylord Perry Quotes

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

I think of three things, and that's it. Just keep it short and take it outside and swing it left.

I don't watch baseball - it's too long and boring.

I'm excited to be a Padre.

I go from my room to the ballpark and play baseball. I try to keep it simple.

In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

I think the most important thing is that World Series.

You know you're going to have 162 games. You're going to have six months to play this game and playing every day is going to be a grind.

Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.

It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.

I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

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

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

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.