Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
babe ruthI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
walt whitmanbaseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
ted williamsbaseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
babe ruthbaseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
juliana hatfieldWhat was incredible about Clemente was not only how skilled he was at each part of the game, but this kind of ferocity that he played with on each play of the game — even in years when they were pitiful and they had no chance to get into the pennant or anything like that. He would throw it in, he would pick guys off who got a single who took too much of a turn going around first; there was just something intense about this guy that was not necessarily what was going on in baseball at that moment.
roberto clementeThere was the abortion brief and also the brief in the Wygant case. I had a big hand in writing it, and so did Sam Alito, who had this marvelous phrase saying that a particular African American baseball player would not have served as a great role model if the fences had been pulled in every time he was up at bat, a point which some people were greatly offended by because they thought it to be pamphleteering. I thought it was entirely appropriate.
samuel alitoAll I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid than I had, that's it," Bradley said to a quiet clubhouse. "I love all you guys. ... I'm strong, but I'm not that strong.
milton bradleyTo see his boxscore lines ... is to have no idea that the Indians center fielder might very well be the angriest player in baseball.
milton bradleyI 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.
jerry springerBeing with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
casey stengelI view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. […] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.
stephen jay gouldI feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
willem de kooningThere is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
lou gehrigbaseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
jackie robinsonThe best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan QuisenberryI really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
Billy MartinI think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Mark McGwireThe more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.
Alex RodriguezThere's no crying in baseball!
Jimmy Duganbaseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
jacques barzunbaseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
branch rickeybaseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
wilfrid sheedI said: "baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
walt whitman