Baseball Quotes And Sayings

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“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
– Earl Wilson

“For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.”
– Earl Wilson

“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”
– Edward Abbey

“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’”
– Eric Alterman

“I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn’t forget how to play while I was recovering. I don’t know if the cancer is gone for good. I don’t think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I’m able to play baseball.”
– Eric Davis

“Baseball is not what I love. It’s my job.”
– Eric Davis

“I’d never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn’t even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That’s what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, ‘When are we going to get this thing out?’”
– Eric Davis

“I could’ve played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn’t know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.”
– Eric Davis

“I love the game, it’s the greatest game on earth, that’s why I can’t understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That’s the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.”
– Eric Davis

“I’m no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I’m part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.”
– Eric Davis

“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Awards mean a lot, but they don’t say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.”
– Ernie Banks

“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.”
– Ernie Harwell

“Baseball just a came 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.”
– Ernie Harwell

“When you’re mad at someone, it’s probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.”
– Evel Knievel

“It’s not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.”
– Floyd Abrams

“I’d like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.”
– Garth Brooks

“While I’m playing baseball, I’m still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I’ll be thinking of music then.”
– Garth Brooks

“As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.”
– Garth Brooks

“The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.”
– Gaylord Perry

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror”
– George Carlin

“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.”
– George F. Will

“I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.”
– George Steinbrenner

“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.”
– George Will

“I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.”
– Gerald R. Ford

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
– H. L. Mencken

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
– Hank Aaron

“The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.”
– Hank Aaron

“Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.”
– Hank Aaron

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