Baseball Quotes
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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 ruth— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1996) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
I just told him to run the bases and don't try to be cocky. He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
carlos zambrano— Scott Rolen
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
walt whitman— American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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.
ted williams— American professional baseball player and manager (1918 - 2002)
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
jacques barzun— Quoted in Michael Novak The Joy of Sport (1976), pt1.
To see his boxscore lines ... is to have no idea that the Indians center fielder might very well be the angriest player in baseball.
milton bradley— Alan Schwarz (July 10, 2003). "Bradley knows only one way — the hard way". ESPN. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
The more his fires burned the more that provoked him on the field and I suppose one could say that the happy byproduct was the extraordinary baseball that he gave the fans at the time, but ... uh, there's a moment when you have to say it's not worth it. I think that Ty Cobb in his totality is an embarrassment to baseball.
ty cobb— Daniel Okrent, in the documentary Baseball (1994) by Ken Burns
It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.
joe kehoskie— Discussing the business of Cuban baseball defectors, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.
joe kehoskie— On Cuban baseball defectors, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home (18 June 2001)
Being 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 stengel— BBC 'The myths of sex before sport', 12 August, 2004
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
Irvine Welsh— Sick Boy, "Blowing It: Deid Dugs" (Chapter 4, Story 3)
"I was in the streets marching for civil rights while asshole southern sheriffs were swinging nail studded baseball bats at blacks' heads. Two things you can always count on: I will defend my record on race to no one (sic), under any circumstances and, I will call out any racist, any time without regard to who they are . . . and that includes our half white, racist President."
mark williams—
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
willem de kooning— Willem de Kooning (1969) by Thomas B. Hess, Content Is A Glimpse, excerpts from an interview with David Sylvester, (BBC), Location, vol.1 no.1 Spring 1963
baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
charles krauthammer— Column, April 23, 2010, "The joys of losing" at jewishworldreview.com.
It's time for Dodger baseball!
vin scully— His iconic opening quote
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
yogi berra
Life is inherently ambiguous; baseball games pit pure good against abject evil. Even Saddam Hussein must have committed one act of kindness in his life, but what iota of good could possibly be said for aluminum bats or the designated hitter rule?
— Stephen Jay Gould, in "Baseball and the Two Faces of Janus", p. 272; originally published as "The Virtues of Nakedness" in The New York Review of Books (11 October 1990)
baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
jackie robinson— American baseball player; the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era (1919 - 1972)
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry— American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (1953 - 1998)
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
casey stengel— American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager (1890 - 1975)
I 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 McGwire— American former professional baseball player and currently a bench coach in Major League Baseball
To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out.
Charles Comiskey— American Major League Baseball player, manager and team owner (1859 - 1931)
baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
tommy lasorda— American Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers
There's no crying in baseball!
Jimmy Dugan— Said by Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in A League of Their Own (1992)
baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
jacques barzun— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
baseball is a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited co-operation in their mutual interest.
— 1976 The Joys of Sport, pt.1.
baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
wilfrid sheed— "Why Can't the Movies Play Ball?," The New York Times (1989-05-14)
I 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— Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV
baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.
— Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
