Baseball Quotes
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Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
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You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
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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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They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.
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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
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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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It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.
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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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Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
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America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
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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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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.
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Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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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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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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Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
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I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
