Keith Hernandez Quotes

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

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.

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

When I come to a baseball game, I appreciate the athleticism of these top-tier athletes. When they come to our shows, it's the same thing.

I'm excited to be a Padre.

I've always wanted to see a game at Fenway.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.

I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

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

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

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.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.