Quotes and Sayings About Baseball
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.
-- Adam Sandler -
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
-- Adam Yauch -
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
-- Aidan Quinn -
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
-- Al Gallagher -
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
-- Al Stump -
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
-- Alan Greenspan -
I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
-- Alan Ritchson -
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding -
I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.
-- Albert Pujols -
I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.
-- Albert Pujols -
People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.
-- Albert Pujols -
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
-- Albert Pujols
