Baseball Fans Quotes:

I was a baseball fan, at any rate.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

topic: Baseball, Fans, Baseball Fans

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Sports, Baseball, Father, Sentimentality, Baseball Fans

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

- Rogers Hornsby

topic: Inspirational, Baseball, Heart, Inspirational Baseball, Famous Baseball

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

- George Will

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Little League Baseball, Great Baseball

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

- Harry Caray

topic: Fans, Responsible, Ability, Baseball Fans

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, Fans, Baseball Fans

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Baseball, Art, Hands, Obsessive Compulsive, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Baseball Games, Sports Football

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

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

- Pat Conroy

topic: Baseball, Wine, Numbers, Bordeaux, Baseball Fans

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

- Sharon Olds

topic: Baseball, Men, Fans, Baseball Fans

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Practice, Dangerous, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

- Dave Niehaus

topic: Baseball, Grandma, Bread, Commentators, Famous Baseball

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

- Thomas Boswell

source: Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

topic: Baseball, Practice, Two, Baseball Fans, Batting Practice

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Baseball, Reading, Men, World Series, Institute

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Mother, Sorry, Baseball Games, Baseball Coach

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Sports, Baseball, Winning, World Series, Motivational Baseball

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

- Charley Lau

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, Philosophy, Fans, Baseball Fans

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

- Frank Robinson

source: Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

topic: Sports, Baseball, Horseshoes, Grenade, Baseball Fans

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

- Christy Mathewson

source: Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

topic: Sports, Baseball, Umpires, Necessary Evil, Baseball Fans

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: "NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2011.

topic: Baseball, Play, Fans, Baseball Fans

I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Senior, Baseball, Children, Baseball Fans

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

- Robert Orben

topic: Baseball, Football, Hope, Baseball Fans, Hockey Fan

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

- Will Leitch

topic: Baseball, Cheer, Pain, Baseball Fans

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

- Orrin Hatch

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Baseball Fans

Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.

- Drew Storen

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Baseball, Military, Thinking, Baseball Fans, Baseball Love

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

- Wilfrid Sheed

topic: Baseball Fans

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

- Bill de Blasio

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Fans, Obsessed, Mlb, Baseball Fans

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Baseball, Doe, Fans, Baseball Fans

I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.'

- Rick Santorum

topic: Sports, Baseball, Dream, Field Of Dreams, Baseball Fans

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Baseball, Fans, Honest, Baseball Fans

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

- Andrea Tantaros

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Baseball, Yankees, Boston, Baseball Fans

If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.

- George Brett

topic: Baseball, People, Parks, Baseball Fans

People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.

- Graig Nettles

topic: Baseball, New York, Winter, World Series, Baseball Fans

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

- Donald Hall

source: Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press

topic: Baseball, Past, Glasses, Baseball Fans, Baseball Love

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, Fans, Bars, Baseball Fans

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Baseball, Light, Fans, Baseball Fans

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be,

- Mark Walter

topic: Baseball, Decision, Want, Baseball Fans

This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

- Carl Pohlad

topic: Baseball, Commitment, League, Major League Baseball, Never Ending