Baseball Quotes
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Baseball is a game of the soul.
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You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.
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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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That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
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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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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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I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
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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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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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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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Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
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We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.
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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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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.
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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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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.
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To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
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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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Baseball is not a grind for me.
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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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The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
