Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

— George Vecsey

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan…

— Kevin Costner

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

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was…

— Bob Lemon

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.…

— Reggie Jackson

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

— Vance Law

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

— Willie Stargell

Writing thats not working for a living.

— Robert Asprin

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything…

— Randall Cobb

Sometimes in public you don't feel like being "on." But it's OK. It beats working anyday.

— Joe Diffie

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has…

— Bruce Dickinson

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free.…

— Barry Bonds

Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How…

— Ichiro Suzuki