Bonesville Daily SportByte™ — Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 11.30.12 — "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and, in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." — Jim Bouton, baseball player and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.29.12 — "When a poor American boy dreamed of escaping his grim life, his fantasy probably involved becoming a professional baseball player. It was not so much the national sport as the binding national myth." — David Halberstam, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.28.12 — "Professional baseball, like any other business, grants no favors. There's more money for the winners, and the way to win is to learn your opponent's weaknesses and play to them." — Carol Hughes, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.27.12 — "Other sports are just sports, baseball is love." — Bryant Gumbel, broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.26.12 — "Only boring people find baseball boring." — Peter Golenbach, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.25.12 — "Mexican baseball is exactly like American baseball, except for the extraneous embellishments. They work the hit and run and turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell the hot dog." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.24.12 — "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." — Jacques Barzun, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.23.12 — "Baseball is a game of race, creed and color. The race is to first. 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 player and broadcaster, from his book 'Baseball Is a Funny Game' [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.22.12 — "Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't take a chance with some of those birds." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.21.12 — "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." — Ty Cobb, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.20.12 — "What's important is that kids discover that baseball is fun – and that it gets to be more fun as you get better at it." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.19.12 — "Well, this year I'm told that the team did well because one pitcher had a fine curve ball. I understand that a curve ball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive. Surely that is not an ability we should want to foster at Harvard." — Charles William Eliot, Harvard President, 1869-1909, when asked why he wished to drop baseball as a collegiate sport [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.18.12 — "Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win." — Phil Rizutto, baseball player and broadcaster, on hearing during a New York Yankees game that Pope Paul VI had died [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.17.12 — "Oh, somewhere in the favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville – mighty Casey has struck out." — Ernest Lawrence Thayer, writer, from 'Casey at the Bat' [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.16.12 — "There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey's bearing, and a smile on Casey's face; And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat; No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat." — Ernest Lawrence Thayer, writer, from 'Casey at the Bat' [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.15.12 — "The Yankees are baseball." — Joe Torre, baseball player and manager, on the New York Yankees [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.14.12 — "The strongest thing baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays." — Lawrence Ritter, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.13.12 — "Tell the gentlemen I am glad to know of their coming, but they'll have to wait a few minutes till I make another base hit." — Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, speaking of a group of men coming to convince him to run for the Senate [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.12.12 — "One of the strongest points of baseball is that it has room for its critics and those who do not toe the party line. There's a little room for the heretic in the game." — Keith Olberman, broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.11.12 — "The romance between intellectuals and the game of baseball is, for the most part, one-sided to the point of absurdity. A large percentage of intelligent Americans evaluate the four hundred men who play Major League Baseball as demigods. A large percentage of the muscular four hundred rate intellectuals several notches below umpires." — Roger Kahn, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.10.12 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.09.12 — "Never trust a base runner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes." — Joe Garagiola, baseball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.08.12 — "Lots of fans are losing interest in the big leagues because it's a great game but it's played lousy." — Whitey Herzog, baseball player, manager and executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.07.12 — "Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure." — John F. Kennedy, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.06.12 — "I see great things in baseball. It is our game. The American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." — Walt Whitman, poet [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.05.12 — "I guess I just couldn't believe it. But it's true all right. The flags are down, the lights in the temple are out, and the Harlem River flows lonely to the seas." — Roger Kahn, writer, about the closing of Ebbets Field after the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.04.12 — "I gave up a lot to play ball. I gave up human relationships. Baseball was my relationship." — Maury Wills, baseball player, manager and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.03.12 — "If not for baseball, he'd be a bum." — Al Martin, friend of Jason Kendall, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.02.12 — "High school baseball is an education of the heart, the ground is a classroom of purity, a gymnasium of morality; that is its essential meaning." — Suishu Tobita, baseball player and manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.01.12 — "Hello, Joe? It's Frank. Giants three, Dodgers nothing." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, in a telephone call to Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union dictator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]