Baseball Quotes
The reason baseball calls itself a game, I believe, is that it is too screwed up to be a business.
--Jim Bouton
The reason baseball calls itself a game, I believe, is that it is too screwed up to be a business.
--Jim Bouton
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I have found most baseball players to be afflicted with tobacco-chewing minds.
--Howard Cosell
--Howard Cosell
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There is a fine line between success and failure. In baseball, the difference between a.350 hitter and a.250 hitter is only a 1/4 inch up or down the bat.
--Mortimer Feinberg
There is a fine line between success and failure. In baseball, the difference between a.350 hitter and a.250 hitter is only a 1/4 inch up or down the bat.
--Mortimer Feinberg
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
--Robert Frost
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
--Robert Frost
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Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
--Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
--Joe Garagiola
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When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he found a baseball that Jimmy Foxx hit off me in 1937.
--Lefty Gomez
When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he found a baseball that Jimmy Foxx hit off me in 1937.
--Lefty Gomez
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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.
--Jane Goodsell
--Jane Goodsell
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
--Elbert Hubbard
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
--Elbert Hubbard
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A good listener is like a catcher in baseball. He keeps tossing the ball back for you to pitch.
--Franklin P. Jones
--Franklin P. Jones
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Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. --James Kilpatrick
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. --James Kilpatrick
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
--Sidney Madwed
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
--Sidney Madwed
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
--John Leonard
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
--John Leonard
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
--David Ogilvy
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
--David Ogilvy
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
--Harry Reasoner
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
--Harry Reasoner
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A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
-- Unknown
A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
-- Unknown
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
-- Unknown
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
-- Unknown
