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That’s baseball, and it’s my game. Y’ know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave ’em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It’s good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of ’em.
Author: Humphrey Bogart
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Author: Jackie Robinson
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Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
Author: Jerry Izenberg
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You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Author: Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
Author: Jim Murray
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The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
Author: Jim Murray
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[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn’t give a damn.
Author: Jimmy Cannon
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Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Author: Joe Garagiola
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Author: John Leonard, New York Times, 2 November 1975
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Don’t park in the spaces marked, ‘Reserved for Umpires.’
Author: John McSherry
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Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?
Author: Larry Anderson
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The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
Author: Lawrence Ritter
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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.
Author: Leo Durocher
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A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
Author: M*A*S*H, Klinger, ‘Bug-Out,’ 1976
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Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
Author: Mark Kramer
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
Author: Mickey Mantle
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Author: Mickey Mantle, 1970
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Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.
Author: Mike Royko, 1981
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There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Author: Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981
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Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
Author: Nomar Garciaparra
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