More Baseball Sayings, Including Many Old-Time Baseball Quotes

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“Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.”
– Philip Wrigley

“A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.”
– Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970

” [L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o’clock in the afternoon for an eight o’clock game. It’s so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren’t there. ”
– Ray Miller

“[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o’clock in the afternoon for an eight o’clock game. It’s so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren’t there.”
– Ray Miller

“Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.”
– Red Smith

“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon. That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you.”
– Reggie Jackson

“Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it’s a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.”
– Richard Gilman

“Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off… the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.”
– Rick Maksian

“It actually giggles at you as it goes by.”
– Rick Monday, on Phil Niekro’s knuckleball, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1 August 1983

“The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.”
– Rick Wise

“England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.”
– Robert Benchley

“One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.”
– Robert Benchley

“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
– Robert Frost

“Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.”
– Robert S. Wieder

“Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.”
– Roger Kahn

“Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.”
– Roger Simon

“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”
– Rogers Hornsby

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornsby

“I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.”
– Ron Shelton, in Bull Durham, 1988

“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”
– Roy Campanella

“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
– Sandy Koufax

“Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ”
– Saul Steinberg

“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.”
– Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987

“I don’t love baseball. I don’t love most of today’s players. I don’t love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports.”
– Stan Isaacs, “Diamond-Studded Memories,” Newsday, 9 April 1990

“Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.”
– Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974

“To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
– Steve Hovley

“There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”
– Tallulah Bankhead

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
– Ted Williams

“Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.”
– The Villains in Blue, Time magazine, 25 August 1961

“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”
– Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports

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