Quotes about baseball
baseball eye giving
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are. Thomas Boswell
baseball practice two
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
baseball cheating games
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
baseball art hands
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
baseball smell special
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
baseball thinking kkk
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK) Woody Allen
baseball art caring
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't. William Saroyan
baseball player two
We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog
baseball play trying
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
baseball player errors
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
baseball team writing
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.. Willem de Kooning
baseball winning games
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy. Warren Spahn
baseball political pastime
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. Ronald Reagan
baseball looks gloves
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law
baseball absolutes unpredictability
Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all Roger Angell
baseball book reading
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.
baseball long people
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
baseball player want
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
baseball two three
I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.
baseball father moving
Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.
baseball hands games
Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.
baseball forever alive
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
baseball brother kids
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. Robin Yount
baseball sweet yankees
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet. Robert Rubin
baseball baseball-love
God, I just love baseball. Robert Redford
baseball race president
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. Rob Sheffield
baseball school years
I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree. Ryan Howard
baseball years way
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs. Russell Baker
baseball football running
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. Thomas Sowell
baseball kids electronics
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. Robert Moog
baseball balls
I have never willingly chased a ball. Robert Morley
baseball fighting people
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on. Robert Kennedy
baseball play want
This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball. Rickey Henderson