“Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.
Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
In baseball, there’s always the next day.
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
The greatest thing about baseball is the opportunity to play it.
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure, and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open.
In baseball, as in life, all the important things happen at home.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball, everyone has their little plot of the field to tend
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That’s why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball – because you have to learn to live with failure.
