Baseball Quotes

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

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

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

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

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

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

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

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

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.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

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