Baseball Quotes
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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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I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.
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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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I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
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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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It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
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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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Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
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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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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
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Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.
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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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You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.
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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
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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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I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.
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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.
