BASEBALL QUOTES IV

quotations about baseball

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My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. As I realized years later, that is still the finest theory of hitting yet devised.

TOMMY LASORDA

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The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

GABE PAUL

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

JOSH LEVENTHAL

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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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The average age of our bench is deceased.

TOMMY LASORDA

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

VICTOR ALEXANDER BALTOV

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

JOE GARAGIOLA

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

PETE ROSE

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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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Over the years I've heard that baseball is like a poker game, that marriage is like baseball, that sex is like baseball, that baseball is like Darwinism, that baseball is like war, and--most of all--that baseball is really, when you think about it, a lot like life. I've caught myself starting to say that once or twice myself, and the comparison is tempting. But it's just not true: baseball is nothing like life, which is why it's so great.

EMMA SPAN

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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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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 indulgent about facades, preferring them to reality. The game has surrounded itself with euphemisms, like a junkyard with an ivy-covered fence. Baseball is peanuts and hot dogs and heart and team spirit and camaraderie and good feeling and a way of life second in wholesomeness only to the Boy Scouts. Of course, it is none of these things, and one only has to examine the fortunes and personnel of a single team over a period of time to understand how shimmery the facade is.

LEONARD SHECTER

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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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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand.

ROGER ANGELL

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