Alex Gibney Quotes

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.