Quotes
Quotes about Baseball
Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.".
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
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.
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
I'm old, old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My Mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.
If you are worshipping false godsâsuch as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silverâand you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sundayârepent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
