Baseball Hall Of Fame Quotes

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo’s election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

I heard a fella say once he’d rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they’ve (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I’m still here.

I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

I’m honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don’t I have the numbers to be inducted?

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.

I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.