Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

Hillary Clinton

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Herbert Hoover

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

Herbert Hoover

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Herbert Hoover

I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.

Herbert Hoover

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

Herbert Hoover

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Herbert Hoover

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

Herbert Hoover

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

Herbert Hoover

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Herbert Hoover

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Ernie Harwell

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

Ernie Harwell

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Ernie Harwell

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

Ernie Harwell

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Ernie Harwell

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Ernest Hemingway

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

Ernest Hemingway

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

Ernest Lawrence

But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.

Erma Bombeck

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

James Smith

In my three years coaching baseball this is collectively the most talent that we have had top to bottom in the lineup. Offensively and defensively this is the most talent we've had. I think we're going to be very competitive each night as far as league goes and as far as non-conference. I think we're going to be in a lot of ball games this year.

In my judgment, the reason the vote was taken is a simple one: Baseball and softball are not European sports. The Olympics are Euro-centric and Euro-dominated. I don't think there's much more to it than that.

Omar Vizquel

I never thought I was gonna come up with a game like that today. Sometimes you rest 11 hours and feel strong and you go 0-for-4. So, that's the way baseball works sometimes.

Bud Selig

I guess none of this is unexpected. I'm saddened by it in the sense that opening day was such a good, positive day. Every game was sold out. It was really a great baseball day. But controversy will spawn with that type of activity, whether I like it or not.