Baseball Quotes
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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
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Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
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I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
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That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.
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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
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Your country is bigger than baseball.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
