#seb

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. ↗

— Bud Selig

#american #american youth #baseball #comes #game

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#business #else #everything #family #feel

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#been #believe #buying #dad #earning

I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium. ↗

— Chad Smith

#baseball #basement #called #club #different

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance. ↗

— Al Spalding

#boy #gives #growing #poise #reliance

Baseball is a man maker. ↗

— Al Spalding

#maker #man

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. ↗

— Al Spalding

#democratic #game #genius #institutions #our

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. ↗

— Al Spalding

#american #any #anything #ball game #baseball

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps. ↗

— Jeremy Spencer

#give #give me #gives #goosebumps #heart

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets