Best Baseball Fans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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“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.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

“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.”

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Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“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.”

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Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“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.”

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Author:Graig Nettles

“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.”

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Author:George Brett

“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.”

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Author:Andrea Tantaros

“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.”

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Book:Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

Source: Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

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

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Author:Sharon Olds

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

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“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.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“I was a baseball fan, at any rate.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“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.'”

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Author:Rick Santorum

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

“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, 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.”

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

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

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Author:Pat Conroy

“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.”

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Author:Leo Durocher

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

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Author:Rogers Hornsby

“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.”

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Author:Lou Gehrig

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

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

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Author:Dave Niehaus

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

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Author:Tommy Lasorda

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

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Author:Frank Robinson

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

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

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“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.”

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Book:Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

Source: Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

“Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.”

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Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“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.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

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

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Author:Mark Walter

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

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Author:Bill de Blasio

“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.”

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Author:Carl Pohlad

“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.”

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Author:Keith Olbermann