BASEBALL QUOTES IV

quotations about baseball

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One of the great things about baseball is that it can be played almost anywhere.

JOSH LEVENTHAL

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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

JOHN THORN

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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

JOE GARAGIOLA

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Baseball is only a pastime, a sport, an entertainment, a way of blowing off steam. But it is also the national game, with an appeal to Americans of every race, color, creed, sex or political opinion. It unites Americans in the common cause of rooting for the home team.

JACKIE ROBINSON

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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

HENRY KISSINGER

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My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

SPARKY ANDERSON

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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

PETE ROSE

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Learning to hit a baseball is like learning a foreign language. If you want to speak a foreign language without an accent, you have to do it when you're young. After a certain age, it's too late.

JOHN RITTER

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You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

DUSTY BAKER

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Baseball is as urban as sparring gladiators in the Colosseum, fighting each other, fighting lions, the scent of terror and failure and blood sickly-sweet in the air. Baseball is as urban as bearbaiting on the south bank of the Thames, a spectacle that competed for shillings with the words of Shakespeare and Jonson.

GEORGE VECSEY

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Baseball is like war. It's no pink tea. Mollycoddlers had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy. A survival of the fittest.

TY COBB

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Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

BILL LEE

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The best words--most fun words--in our language are "play ball." Those words conjure up home runs and strikeouts, extra innings and double plays. "Play ball" is what baseball is all about--its call to arms--and there isn't a baseball fan in the USA or Canada who isn't a little excited over the beginning of a new season.

PETER UEBERROTH

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Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

PETE ROSE

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Baseball is a curious anomaly in American life. It seems to have been ingrained in people in their childhood.... Baseball is, after all, a boy's game, and children are innocent of evil. So even adults who are prejudiced revert to their childhood when they encounter a baseball player and they react with the purity of little children.

JACKIE ROBINSON

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The state of baseball is the barometric pressure of America's soul.

VICTOR ALEXANDER BALTOV

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The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

HANK AARON

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For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

DONALD HALL

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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. There is nothing wrong with that. Man needs a place to vent his angers other than in direct confrontation with his fellow man.

WILLIE MAYS

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Baseball is a spectacle; people come to see it because it is artificial, because it distills reality into a customary form. Yet the very fact that they come to see it makes it real. A culture is its carnivals, its stage plays, its sideshows and circuses.

TIMOTHY MORRIS

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