Baseball Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda
A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.
Arthur Daley
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.
Alvin Dark
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.”
Leo Durocher
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.
Don Drysdale
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
Ray Fitzgerald
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Tallulah Bankhead
Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
Pete Hamill
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Thomas Boswell
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it’s a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
Richard Gilman
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Bryant Gumbel
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Al Gallagher
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Bill Veeck
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.
Thomas Boswell
I don’t know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts…. The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You’re never sure how it’s going to turn out.
George Foster
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Walt Whitman
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.
Hank Aaron
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby
Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.
Saul Steinberg
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
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.
Art Hill
“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
Edward Abbey
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.Jim Murray
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
Casey Stengel
Say this much for big league baseball – it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Bruce Catton
That’s baseball, and it’s my game. Y’ know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave ‘em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It’s good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of ‘em.
Humphrey Bogart
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.
Rick Wise
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