Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in…

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

— George Carlin

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was broadcasting Cardinal baseball in the major leagues at the age of 21, and that only happened because my last name was Buck.

— Joe Buck

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

— George Carlin

“Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER”

— Lori Wilde

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

— Stephen King

“Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make…

— Carol Shields

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations…

— Martha Beck

“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”

— Walter Kirn

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right,…

— Bob Odenkirk

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

— Anonymous

“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out. This whole night has been…

— Gayle Forman

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

— Burt Lancaster