B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Baseball is not a grind for me.”
“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.”
“Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.”
“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.”
“Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.”
“Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.”
“Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.”
“Baseball is our national game.”
“Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.”
“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.”
“Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.”
“Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.”
“Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.”
Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game
“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.”
“Baseball is religion without the mischief.”
“Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.”
“Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.”
“Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.”
“Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.”
Source: The Business of Baseball
“Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.”
“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.”
Source: America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries
“Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.”
“Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.”
“Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.”
“Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.”
“Baseball is the life.”
“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.”
“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.”
“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
“Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.”
“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.”
“Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave”
“Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed”
“Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.”
Source: Tuned to Baseball
“Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.”
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.”
“Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.”
Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches
“Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.”
“Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”
Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game
“Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.”
“Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.”
“Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.”
“Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.”
“Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk”
“Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams try to be the best they can be on the grandest stage of all—where men become boys and boys become men, all speaking one universal language without uttering a single word.”
“Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.”
“Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.”
“Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.”