Top 59 Quotes About Barry Bonds: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Barry Bonds

#1. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker

#2. I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to ... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Frank Robinson

#3. But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

Frank Robinson

#4. We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk?

Daniel Tosh

#5. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

Andy Van Slyke

#6. Don't kid yourself. Global warming is no joke. Here's how serious global warming has gotten to be in the United States. In this country global warming is so bad, we are now actually starting to warm up to Barry Bonds.

David Letterman

#7. Drew is a player that comes along once every 20 years. Not even Barry Bonds can be compared to J.D. Drew.

Scott Boras

#8. Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

John Thorn

#9. I want to be that good. I want to be Barry Bonds. I want when I pitch to be 'Win Day.' I want my teammates to relax on the days I pitch because they know they only have to get us a couple of runs. I'm totally prepared for that.

Josh Beckett

#10. Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

Conan O'Brien

#11. If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

Argus Hamilton

#12. I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.

Stephen Rodrick

#13. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

#14. It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Barry Bonds

#15. Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Barry Bonds

#16. I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Barry Bonds

#17. I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Barry Bonds

#18. I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.

Barry Bonds

#19. I don't sign for white people.

Barry Bonds

#20. Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

Barry Bonds

#21. There's not too many rich black people in this world.

Barry Bonds

#22. I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination [and] technically hit a baseball.

Barry Bonds

#23. I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

Barry Bonds

#24. I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

Barry Bonds

#25. Baseball is just my job.

Barry Bonds

#26. I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

Barry Bonds

#27. I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

Barry Bonds

#28. It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

Barry Bonds

#29. Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

Barry Bonds

#30. I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Barry Bonds

#31. As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Barry Bonds

#32. I don't know what my future is.

Barry Bonds

#33. I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

Barry Bonds

#34. I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

Barry Bonds

#35. If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

Barry Bonds

#36. Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Barry Bonds

#37. When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

Barry Bonds

#38. I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

Barry Bonds

#39. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Barry Bonds

#40. I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

Barry Bonds

#41. Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

#42. I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Barry Bonds

#43. But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Barry Bonds

#44. I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Barry Bonds

#45. I don't want to be a Major League coach.

Barry Bonds

#46. My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Barry Bonds

#47. My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

Barry Bonds

#48. Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

Barry Bonds

#49. Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

Barry Bonds

#50. It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

Barry Bonds

#51. Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

Barry Bonds

#52. I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

Barry Bonds