Baseball Quotes
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
George Will
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It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
Art Rust, Jr.
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I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
Harrison Ford
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Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.
George Winston
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I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.
Paul Auster
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Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
Andrew McCutchen
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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
Ernie Harwell
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Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.
Russell Baker
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True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
Will Leitch
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In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I want to be a good actress, I want to be a good person, and I want to play baseball.
Kylie Bunbury