Quotes about baseball II

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds


Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper


I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day. ~Gabe Paul



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, on Montreal

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


Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ~Casey Stengel

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~Author Unknown


Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard


Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955


Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983


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



It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Bill Veeck


A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978


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


Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley


England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley


Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola


Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder


The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck



Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." ~Author Unknown