Quotes about baseball
baseball gossip pastime
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. Erma Bombeck
baseball money clubs
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. Fay Vincent
baseball aggravation congress
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
baseball mad-at-someone arms
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. Evel Knievel
baseball grateful men
I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game. Ford Frick
baseball new-york moving
Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.
baseball curves balls
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. Floyd Abrams
baseball stories
Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true. George Vecsey
baseball august jelly
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.
baseball mind therapy
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. George Pataki
baseball children responsibility
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. Chrissie Hynde
baseball mean daddy
I’ve done all kinds of cool things as an actor—I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy. Chris Pratt
baseball children passion
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play. George V. Higgins
baseball believe littles
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
baseball beer judging
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge. George Steinbrenner
baseball agency yankees
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
baseball horse odds
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
baseball team practice
What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
baseball office want
Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
baseball football home
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. George Carlin
baseball football struggle
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
baseball player people
Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.
baseball team father
If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.
baseball home safe
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!
baseball team stupid
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
baseball song tired
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. Garth Brooks
baseball thinking my-future
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
baseball song writing
I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.
baseball fun thinking
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories. Gail Simmons
baseball hurt player
The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. Frank Thomas
baseball want montreal
Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it Felipe Alou
baseball growing-up school
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there. Finn Wittrock
baseball player museums
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. Ferguson Jenkins