A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you,… — Roy Campanella Copy Share Image
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it,… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free. — John Cullum Copy Share Image
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me,… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If the players don't produce, and aren't in the position to be evaluated correctly, then a manager's job of winning or losing… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A… — Carson Cistulli Copy Share Image
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men… — Vida Blue Copy Share Image
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer… — Steve Busby Copy Share Image
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never… — Bengie Molina Copy Share Image
I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit,… — Jacob deGrom Copy Share Image
READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image