Quotes
Quotes about Baseball
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper.
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player.
Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
