Baseball Quotes

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

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.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

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.'

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.