Melvin Maddocks Quotes

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

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

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

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

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 will watch football or baseball.

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

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

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.