~ Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer ~
~ No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined ~
~ Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living ~
~ Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror ~
~ Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball ~
~ You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all ~
~ The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. ~
~ Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people ~
~ Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living ~
~ Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball ~
~ My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad ~
~ Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot ~