Baseball Quotes
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown
Hank Aaron
Baseball is a game of inches
Branch Rickey
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero
Edward Abbey
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball
Albert Einstein
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive
Roberto Clemente
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
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
Herb Caen
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. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose: it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance-thrown hard and with precision
Roger Angell
I think a baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment
Lowell Cohn
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution
Herbert Hoover
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It 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
Walt Whitman
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series
Tommy Lasorda
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball
Pete Rose
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve
Jaja Q.
