Baseball Quotes
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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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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.
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This is an acknowledgment of an entire area of the world and a heritage and multiple countries. This is not a racial thing. The Latin American influence in baseball has been pervasive.
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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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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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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
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Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.
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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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That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
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It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
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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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I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.
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Baseball is a game of the soul.
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Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.
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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 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 is not a grind for me.
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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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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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Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
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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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(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.
