Baseball Quotes - Page 50

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me.

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.