BASEBALL QUOTES
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I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
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No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body.... As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.
Sadaharu Oh
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
Robert Frost
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed.
Bill Veeck
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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to get dressed for all of them.
Satchel Paige
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