Top 20 Quotes On Baseball

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  

Rogers Hornsby

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. 

 Tom Clark 

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.  

Roy Campanella

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

George Carlin 

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. 

Vance Law

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. 

Ken Harrelson

Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist.  Throw some ground balls.  More democratic.  

From the movie Bull Durham 

Poets are like baseball pitchers.  Both have their moments.  The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

  Rick Wise, 1974

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. 

Bruce Catton

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. 

Jim Murray

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.  If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. 

Bill Veeck

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.

  Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. 

Bob Lemon, 1981

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. 

Jim Murray

This is a game to be savored, not gulped.  There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. 

Bill Veeck

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.  

Richard Gilman

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. 

Thomas Boswell

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. 

Mark Kramer

 Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?  

Larry Anderson