Quotes & Sayings About Stealing Bases

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else. — Carl Crawford

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can. — Carlos Beltran

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing. — Bill James

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. — Lou Brock

Before I was drafted by the Red Sox, I really didn't know that much about them, but in talking to people, they said they weren't known for stealing a lot of bases. It's nice coming to an organization that doesn't necessarily use the run game and still have them give me the green light to steal and use my speed. — Jacoby Ellsbury

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder. — Carl Crawford

When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty. — Rickey Henderson

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too. — Rickey Henderson

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook. — Lou Brock