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“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Thinking Needs Sports Team Football Basketball Essence Baseball Seasons Hockey Defining Parity

Author:Michael Wilbon

“I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.”

Knows Want Littles I Can Wanted School Succeed Baseball Be Good League Do The Best Little League Little League Baseball

Author:Adam Sandler

“There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.”

World Want Heart Shows Next Stuff Imagine Television Becoming Baseball Critics Show Business

Author:Charlie Sheen

“I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.”

Want Baseball Baseball Love

Author:Vin Scully

“The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.”

Form Baseball Relate Charm

Author:Vin Scully

“[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.”

Knows Should Mind Heart America Games Heard Events Judging Personality Research Baseball My Time I Have Learned Biographies Heart And Mind Outstanding Jury Documentation Judge And Jury Landi

Author:Ralph Kiner

“I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow”

Happens Hate Grows Baseball I Hate Things Happen Grass Dull

Author:Jeff Jarvis

“Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.”

Fire Team Rain Baseball Managers Opposing Stink

Author:Bill Maher

“No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.”

Men Writing Heart Important Book Together Lasts Games Half Written Century Hero Baseball Extraordinary Patient Complicated Treasure Genuine Combination Consistent 20th Century

Author:Ken Burns

“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.”

Book Bigs Passion Grows Growing Up Player Childhood Baseball Thirds Cards Comic Grades Comic Book My Passion Collecting Fanatics Baseball Player Third Grade Baseball Cards

Author:Alan Ritchson

“Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.”

Home Moving Baseball Strikes Plates Pitching Baseball Pitching Three Strikes Home Plate

Author:Satchel Paige

“My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.”

Dream Would Be Baseball Holiday Tickets Bats Immunity Prosecution Amsterdam

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.”

Writing Trying Week Connections Baseball Wide Range Thinker Competence Dinosaurs Being Afraid Choral Music

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

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

Games Baseball Idiot Moron

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”

World Play Sports Alive Baseball Active Where You Are Tranquil

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.”

Home Goal Enemy Objects Football Crosses Baseball March Territory

Author:George Carlin

“There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.”

Knows Baseball One Word

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.”

“An island of surety in a changing world.”

World Baseball Islands

Author:Bill Veeck

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

Thinking Bigs Sports Baseball Institutions Sacred Selfish Dedicated Big Business Public Good Ruthlessness

Author:Jackie Robinson

“Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.”

Ifs May Stills Different Games Sports One Thing Baseball Bases Praise Coaches Circles Absurd Preparation Behave Runners Headmasters

Author:Barbara Holland

“Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.”

Heart Shows Games Sports Special Baseball Special Places

Book:The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

“Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.”

Ifs Doe Games Baseball Balls Peanuts Ball Games

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.”

Class Team Baseball Nfl Yankees

Author:Jim Thorpe

“Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.”

Guy Sound Fit Baseball Cards Als Uniforms Surveillance Caps Al Qaeda Nsa Accusation Baseball Caps

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.”

Way Giving Years Persons Found Games Mountain Kissing Baseball Knees Climbs Retired Single Person

Author:Sparky Anderson

“all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.”

Way Should Believe Would Be Father Games Forever Team Childhood Paper Baseball Boxes Score Allowing Papers His Love Printed Incomplete Rendering

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.”

Men Feelings Order Talking Baseball

Author:Deborah Tannen

“You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.”

People Helping Next Fun Realizing Brain Ought Baseball Accomplish Cells Pastime Being Funny Brain Cells

Author:Ann Richards

“The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.”

Jokes Baseball Practicals Psychiatry Practical Joke

Book:Strike Two

Source: Strike Two

“[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.”

Fans Baseball Chicago Cubs Chicago Cubs

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.”

Long Real Lasts Sports Baseball Like Love Baseball Love

Author:Carol Tavris

“A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.”

Sports Team Fans Roots Baseball Hog Truffles

Author:Carol Tavris

“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.”

Ifs Stills Different Fall Games Sound Watches Tree Baseball Woods Propositions Baseball Games

Author:Carson Cistulli

“Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.”

Writing Seems Baseball Piano Get Better Nails Sewing Playing Piano Piano Playing

Author:Betsy Byars

“My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.”

Men Joy Baseball Pants Manly Tight Pants

Author:Carolyn Hart

“that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.”

Moments Sports Baseball Desperate

Author:Lucy Jane Bledsoe

“When I was fifteen I believed that sex was nearly the same thing as softball.”

Baseball Softball

Author:Lucy Jane Bledsoe

“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.”

People World Used Guy Next Watches Fans New York Baseball Series Fingers Winter Driving Used To Be Los Angeles World Series Freeways Baseball Fans

Author:Graig Nettles

“I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.”

School Growing Up Growing High School Baseball

Author:Finn Wittrock

“If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Doe Shows Moving Courses Player Baseball Look Up Annoying Keep Moving Yelling Baseball Player

Author:Tiger Woods

“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.”

Dream Happens Night Cities Streets Football Safe Basketball Summer Baseball Green Controlled Intimidation Unsafe Armageddon Safe Places Summer Nights

Author:Luke Salisbury

“Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.”

Body Majors Baseball Pressure Average Shoulders Curious Broke League Pounds Tested Pitcher Researchers Major League Cadavers

Author:Tom Verducci

“My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.”

Young Teaching Football Like You Normal Training Baseball Teenager Idols Mum Boston Aunt Playing Baseball

Author:Donnie Yen

“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

Should Years Mind Boys Baseball Eight

Author:Aidan Quinn

“I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.”

World Made Film Games Industry Easier Baseball Debt Made It Entrances Film Industry

Author:Chuck Connors

“Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.”

Games Sports Watches Baseball Boring Right Thing Softball

Book:Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime

Source: Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend: Reflections, Reminiscences, and Reports from the Field on the Lesbian National Pastime

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