Baseball Quotes - Page 56

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

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

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.

In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to - the beauty of playing baseball.

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.