Baseball Quotes

"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."

"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."

"It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge"

"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them."

"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery."

"If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."

"I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going."

"Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,"

"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."

"One of the biggest things that people say is that kids love football, they love baseball, they love soccer, they love basketball, but put a hockey stick in their hands and we'll find out where their true love is."

"Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success."

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams."

"Without them, it would never work. But everybody knows everybody. We like playing baseball and having a good time."

"You've got to have good coaches around you in football and baseball to be able to do both. I've been lucky from that standpoint."

"I've had to jump over fences in baseball and defenders in football. I've always been pretty good at catching a ball."

"A.J. was always around my friends and me. We were always playing tennis, pick-up baseball games, home run derby, anything. We played all kinds of sports. We had a great basketball hoop up in our driveway, too. There was a ton of room. It was perfect."

"He just thinks about baseball. He said he doesn't go out. He just wants to go to the ballpark."