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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing

Warren Spahn

You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning

Bob Sarlette

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck

Andre Dawson

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time

William C. Feather

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

George F. Will

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 greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game

Chuck Tanner

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober

Bill Veeck

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans

George F. Will

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square

Joe Schultz

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate

Duke Snider

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up

Bob Uecker

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?

Dave Shiflett

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Jimmy Piersal

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback

Steve Hovley

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery

Ty Cobb

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases

Rick Maksian

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

Robert Benchley

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between

Bill Veeck

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something

Nolan Ryan

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens

Tommy Lasorda

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end

Tom Seaver

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game

Ted Williams

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain

Casey Stengel

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

George Carlin

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