All Quotes

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.
‐‐ Charles Comiskey

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
‐‐ James Gray

Baseball is the life.
‐‐ Steve Garvey

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
‐‐ Ted Williams

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
‐‐ Mary McGrory

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
‐‐ Bill Terry

Baseball needs more superstars.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
‐‐ Marvin Olasky

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
‐‐ Jim Bouton

Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
‐‐ Ali Farahnakian

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
‐‐ John Thorn

Baseball regards us as sheep.
‐‐ Curt Flood

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
‐‐ Ted Williams

Baseball's my life.
‐‐ Justin Verlander

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Baseball's what I do.
‐‐ Bill Buckner

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
‐‐ John Updike

Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
‐‐ Mark McGwire

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
‐‐ Frank Perdue

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

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
‐‐ Bob Lemon

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
‐‐ Ty Cobb

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
‐‐ Curt Flood

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
‐‐ Marion Motley

Baseball wasn't easy for me.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.
‐‐ Joe Torre

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
‐‐ Bill James

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
‐‐ Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
‐‐ Robert Kagan

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
‐‐ Margaret Chan

Based on eating everyday foods in specific combinations, Somersizing is a lifestyle that will change your way of thinking about how to lose weight and how to increase your energy. Eating the Somersize way is a pleasure. It is a program for life, a program I will happily live on for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann

Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
‐‐ Darren L Johnson

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.
‐‐ Ken Ham

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.
‐‐ Richard Engel