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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]
