Baseball Quotes - page 3

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. (Babe Ruth)
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. View quote
George Steinbrenner
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road. View quote
Vin Scully
Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism. View quote
Jerry Springer
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. View quote
Ernie Banks
Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it. View quote
Ernie Banks
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. View quote
Michael Chabon
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. View quote
Yogi Berra
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. (Robert Redford)
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball. View quote
Roberto Clemente
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. View quote
Roy Campanella
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. View quote
Paul Gallico
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes. View quote
Tim Burton
I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She's never been right since. (Tory) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. View quote
James Surowiecki
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It's the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable. View quote
Joshua Ferris
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards. (Conan O'Brien)
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. View quote
Mickey Mantle
It was all I lived for, to play baseball. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. View quote
Mickey Mantle