B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.”
“Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.”
Source: Tuned to Baseball
“Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do things. There are very few guys that are capable of processing a lot of information and applying it and still being good at it. … I don't want to name names, but there were guys I played with that were so stupid that they're really good, because their mind never gets in the way.”
“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.”
“Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.”
“Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!”
Source: Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball
“Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.”
Source: My Prison Without Bars
“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.”
Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
“Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.”
“Baseball is actually interesting, I don't find me to be that interesting. But I am realistic enough to understand it's not about me, it's about the fact that I'm speaking for the game and people care so deeply about the game that they're watching to make sure that you do the right thing. And I feel a real responsibility to try to do the right thing as a result.”
“Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.”
Source: Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game
“Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.”
“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.”
“Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.”
“Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.”
“Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!”
Source: The Aurora County All-Stars
“Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.”
“Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.”
“Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.”
“Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.”
“Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.”
Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”
“Baseball is dull only to dull minds.”
“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”
Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
“Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.”
“Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.”
“Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”
“Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.”
“Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.”
“Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.”
“Baseball is just my job.”
“Baseball is known for superstitious players and cursed teams—and at the root of every curse there’s a story. Boston’s curse was to trade Babe Ruth to the Yankees. Cubs fans claim a billy goat is responsible for their futility. And Cleveland’s curse? The club struggled after its Pennant-winning 1954 season, but it was rich with optimism just two years later as an onslaught of new talent promised to lift the club once more to the ranks of baseball’s elite—and by 1959 the club was contending for the Pennant again. And then GM Frank Lane traded Rocky Colavito to the Detroit Tigers and cursed everything.”
“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.”
“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”
“Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.”
“Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.”
“Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.”
“Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more
years they expect you to have another good one.”
“Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.”
“Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.”
“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”
Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game
“Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.”
“Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.”
“Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.”
“Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.”
“Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.”
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”
“Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.”
Source: Baseball: our game