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Posted 10.31.12 �
"Some kids dream of joining the circus, others
of becoming a Major League baseball player. I
have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New
York Yankees, I have gotten to do both." � Graig
Nettles, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.30.12 �
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to
keep playing baseball." � Pete Rose, baseball
player and coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.29.12 �
"He's not Mr. October, he's Mr. May." � George
Steinbrenner, baseball team owner, on Dave
Winfield, baseball player, when asked by
sportswriters to compare Winfield with 'Mr.
October,' Reggie Jackson [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.28.12 �
"For the first hundred years of its existence,
baseball had the press of this nation in its
pocket. The true story of baseball was never
told." � James Michener, author [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.27.12 �
"Every great hitter works on the theory that the
pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the
pitcher." � Ty Cobb, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.26.12 �
"During my lifetime, two events clearly stand
out above all others as milestones in the
history of batting in baseball: Joe Dimaggio's
56-game hitting streak, and Ted Williams'
seasonal batting average of .406. Unfortunately,
I missed them both because I was busy gestating
during the season of their joint occurrence in
1941." � Stephen J. Gould, scientist and
baseball enthusiast [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.25.12 �
"Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." � Tommy
Lasorda, baseball manager [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.24.12 �
"Baseball was played since the beginning of the
nation, hence it was part of the nation." �
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, writer, referring
to the nation of Cuba [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.23.12 �
"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half
is physical." Yogi Berra, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.22.12 �
"Baseball's summer of '98 provided authentic
moments of poetry and passion, the kind of stuff
that shines through the crassness and nonsense,
to remind us why we still care." � Bob Costas,
broadcaster [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.21.12 �
"Baseball's grip on Japan's collective psyche is
due, ultimately, to the fact that it suits the
national character ... baseball provided the
Japanese with the opportunity to express their
renowned group proclivities on an athletic field
... Over the years � and despite Oh's home runs
� it has been the team aspects of the game, the
sacrifice bunt, the squeeze, the hit-and-run,
that have come to characterize Japanese
baseball." � Roger Whiting, writer, from You
Gotta Have Wa [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.20.12 �
"Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and
visible expression of the drive and push and
rush and struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming 19th century." � Mark Twain, writer and
humorist [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.19.12 �
"Baseball is so ingrained in Cuba that it has
thrived as the 'national sport' through 40 years
of bitterly anti-American revolution." � Roberto
Gonzalez Echevarria, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.18.12 �
"Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need
belaboring." � Bill Scheft, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.17.12 �
"Baseball is not the sport of the wealthy, it
is the sport of the wage earner." � Bill Veeck,
baseball team owner and racetrack operator [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.16.12 �
"Baseball is not a life-or-death situation, and
in the big picture, this game is just a small
part of our lives. The important thing is to use
baseball to help other people." � Ken Griffey,
Jr., baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.15.12 �
"Baseball is more than just a game. It has
eternal value. Through it, one learns the
beautiful and noble spirit of Japan." � Suishu
Tobita, baseball player and manager [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.14.12 �
"Baseball is a worrying thing." � Stan Coveleshi,
writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.13.12 �
"Baseball is an allegorical play about America,
a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage,
fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate,
and sober self-esteem ... It is impossible to
understand America without a thorough knowledge
of baseball." � Saul Steinberg, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.12.12 �
"Baseball is an 1890 game. It's a peaceful
afternoon in the country. What baseball needs to
compete is more violence." � Bill Veeck,
baseball team owner and racetrack operator [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.11.12 �
"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, baseball team owner and
racetrack operator [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.10.12 �
"Baseball is a crazy game. Anything can happen."
� Fernando Tatis, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.09.12 �
"Baseball has changed so much from the days when
we played that I am fast becoming a stranger to
the game." Bob Gibson, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.08.12 �
"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to
excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else,
but to be better. This is the nature of man, and
this is the name of the game." � Ted Williams,
baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.07.12 �
"Alex, my seven-year-old, had the Mark McGwire
card I'd bought him in the souvenir shop,
holding onto it like it was a winning lottery
ticket." � Mike Lupica, sportswriter, referring
to a baseball card prized by his son [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.06.12 �
"A boy's game, with more possibilities than a
boy can master, a game bounded by walls which
kept out novelties or danger, change or
adventure." � F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer,
alluding to baseball, from a eulogy for his
friend, sports journalist Ring Lardner [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.05.12 �
"What has he done? Nothing but spit on kids,
throw people through windows and talk racist
when he has a white wife, and talk crazy about
black people. He's nobody." � Allen Iverson,
basketball player, on Charles Barkley,
basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.04.12 �
"What's the idea of that dance out there? The
ballet's downtown, not here." � Leo Durocher,
baseball manager, to Willie Mays, baseball
player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.03.12 �
"This is sports as ballet, something utterly new
and modern, its roots African-American, ballet
as a contested sport. No one, after all, ever
guarded Baryshnikov." David Halberstam, author
of Playing for Keeps, on player Michael
Jordan and the sport of basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.02.12 �
"The difference between sports and ballet is
that in sports you root for somebody. Nobody
yells at one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin'
leg, ya bum.' " � Mike Littwin, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations]
Posted 10.01.12 �
"In all of my years of watching football, I can
honestly say that I have never confused football
with ballet." � Joan Tisch, wife of football
team owner Bob Tisch [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations]
