Annie Savoy: [narrating] Walt Whitman once said, "I see…

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

— Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give…

— Walt Whitman

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American;…

— Chester Himes

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

— Ty Cobb

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour…

— Deshaun Watson

European teams have always shied away from South American football. They struggle to get to grips with it. The South American game is more…

— David Trezeguet

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

— Leo Durocher

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's…

— Pablo Sandoval

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do,…

— Rafael Soriano

Ever since I signed, I've wanted to do great things in baseball.

— Carlos Correa