Fay Vincent Quotes


"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: End)

"I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that."
- Fay Vincent
"I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful."
- Fay Vincent
"I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: Thought, Attention, Emotion)

"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: Baseball, Congress, Day)

"It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: People, Baseball, Interest)

"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: Baseball)

"The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: Money, Baseball, Economics)

"The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame."
- Fay Vincent
(Related: Consideration, Fame, Managers)