Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
‐‐ Bob Greene
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
‐‐ Bob Uecker
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
‐‐ Bill Buckner
Baseball is a game of inches.
‐‐ Branch Rickey
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
‐‐ Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
‐‐ James Patrick Murray
Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.
‐‐ Andrew Benintendi
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
‐‐ Jacob Ruppert
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a man maker.
‐‐ Al Spalding
Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle
Baseball is a poorly run business.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
‐‐ Peter Ueberroth
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
‐‐ Ryan Cabrera
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell
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.
‐‐ Sparky Anderson
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
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a team game.
‐‐ Eddie Murray
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
‐‐ Chad Harbach
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
‐‐ Joe Torre
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
‐‐ Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
‐‐ Paul Auster
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
‐‐ Pat Gillick
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
‐‐ Tom Hicks
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
‐‐ Bill Veeck
Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
‐‐ Pete Rose
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
‐‐ Joe Garagiola
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
‐‐ Red Barber
Baseball is just my job.
‐‐ Barry Bonds
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
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
‐‐ Leo Durocher
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
‐‐ Patrick Soon-Shiong
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
‐‐ Bill Klem
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
‐‐ Yogi Berra
Baseball is not a grind for me.
‐‐ Steve Finley
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
‐‐ Laraine Day
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
‐‐ Curt Schilling
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
‐‐ Eric Davis
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
‐‐ Bob Feller
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
‐‐ Gore Vidal