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“Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.”

“Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.”

Done America Moving Baseball Patriot Right Direction

Author:Monte Irvin

“Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.”

Long Baseball Pastime

Author:Jim Sensenbrenner

“Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”

People Past Games Fields Baseball Rays Our Past Best Baseball Baseball Field Good Baseball Field Of Dreams

Author:Terrence Mann

“Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.”

Made Stills Tradition Baseball Profit Exploits

Author:Michael Lewis

Source: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

Advantage Dignity Baseball Cricket Famous Baseball Great Baseball Inspirational Baseball Motivational Baseball Best Baseball Baseball Team Cricket Funny

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

Believe Wells America Law Nations Levels Fields And Love Baseball Library Versions Customs Ritual Privileged

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.”

Men Three Games Sports Player Wonderful Baseball Fats Managers Lazy Spokes Sweat Possessed Seriousness Pitcher Babe Best Players Days Off Ruth Fat Man

Author:Thomas Boswell

Source: Why Time Begins on Opening Day

“Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.”

Whole Baseball Dislocation

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.”

People Games Lost Sports Havens Baseball Forgotten Old Time Timer Old Timers Throwing Things

Author:Bob Uecker

“Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.”

Kind I Can Wanted Remember Natural Brother Dad Baseball My Dad Natural Things Older Brother

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.”

People Way Interest Levels Growing Majors Gains Baseball Starting Soccer League Canada High Level Major League

Author:Joey Votto

“Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.”

Fun Majors Baseball League Navy Major League

Author:Bob Feller

“Baseball is 50% from the neck up”

Baseball Necks

Author:Ted Williams

“Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.”

Drama Baseball Ballet Softball Great Baseball Without Music

Author:Ernie Harwell

“Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.”

Men Games Boys Cry Baseball Grown Man

Author:Bill Veeck

“Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.”

Ifs Mind Happened Baseball Therapy Diversion

Author:George Pataki

“Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.”

Mind Games Baseball Dull Dull Minds

Author:Red Smith

“Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.”

Games Fun Beats Baseball Famous Baseball Baseball Games Funny Baseball Baseball Opening Day Little League Baseball Opening Day Baseball Working For A Living

Author:Phil Linz

“Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.”

Games Baseball Active Ghost Fraternity

Author:Richard Gilman

“Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.”

Littles Games Periods Baseball Luck Average Bad Things

Author:Bill Buckner

“Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.”

Feels Opportunity Games Baseball Sorry Plenty Upset Feel Sorry For You

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Baseball is a game of inches.”

Games Baseball Inches

Author:Branch Rickey

“Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.”

Feels Games Perfect Baseball Not Perfect

Author:Joe Torre

“Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.”

Firsts Wells Home Games White Race Team Color Baseball Gray Creeds Uniforms Visiting Rules Of The Game Home Team

Author:Joe Garagiola

“Baseball is a game of the soul.”

Soul Games Baseball

Author:Pedro Martinez

“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.”

Games Baseball Idiot Moron

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be either a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or the ball.”

Baseball Umpires

Author:Ring Lardner

Source: Lardner on Baseball

“Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.”

Happens Kids Games Waiting Baseball Things Happen Where You Are Kaleidoscope Always Waiting

Author:Frederick Busch

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.”

Games Baseball Great Baseball Baseball Hitting Best Baseball Gentility

Author:Willie Mays

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”

Games Violence Baseball Combat Pace Wraps Baseball Games Great Baseball Baseball Hitting Best Baseball Gentility

Author:Willie Mays

“Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it.”

Games Enjoy Baseball

Author:CC Sabathia

“Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?”

Long Said Games Half Century Habit Essentials Baseball Seasons Institutions Rhythm Rising Crescendo

Author:George Will

“Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.”

Kind Play Arms Baseball Legs Chess Collectives Sunlight Arms And Legs

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.”

Opportunity Existence Baseball Day To Day Ups & Downs

Author:Ernie Harwell

“Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.”

Games Lines Baseball Caught Unfair Fair Game

Author:Rod Kanehl

“Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.”

Individual Differences Nice Player Baseball Army Hotel Baseball Player Funny Baseball

Author:Bill Lee

“Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.”

Men Giving Years Different Seems Running Groups Fields Wall Baseball Appearance Covered Bricks Hood Robes Ivy Neckties Wrigley Field

Author:Hank Aaron

“Baseball is a man maker.”

Men Baseball Makers

Author:Albert Goodwill Spalding

“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.”

Games Struggle Century Football Baseball Technological Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Author:George Carlin

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.”

Ifs Winning Loses Nice Baseball Sight Parks Win Or Lose

Author:Daniel Okrent

“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”

Inspirational Motivational Certain Turns Sports Player Goes On Baseball Owners Public Trust Commissioners

Author:Peter Ueberroth

“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.”

Men Sports Red Baseball Tea Supremacy Famous Baseball Survival Of The Fittest Great Baseball

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.”

Important Baseball Classroom Parts Of Life

Author:Rafe Esquith

“Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.”

Dream Baseball Bigger Fulfillment Throat Lumps Rookies Lump In The Throat

Author:Ernie Harwell

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.”

People Important Real Shows Individual Decision Team Basketball Baseball Balls Court Subtle Dynamics Analytics

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”

Ifs Mind Games Sports Simple Player Baseball Managers Frame Of Mind

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.”

Ifs Way Years Mind Doe Running Able Games Justice Simple Player One Thing Talent Position Spring Percent Hundred Baseball Caught Stealing Managers Hitting October Frame Of Mind

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.”

America Games Taxes Baseball Funny Baseball High Taxes

Author:Will Rogers

Source: The Will Rogers book

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

Body Running Games Football Basketball Baseball Complexes Boring Flying Clock Odd Baseball Games Cerebral Basketball Game

Author:Charles Krauthammer

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