If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it…

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

— Casey Stengel

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous

I was a happy kid. I played a lot of baseball with my big brother, Jerry.

— B. J. Thomas

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man…

— Dick Gregory

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

— Fay Vincent

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that…

— Steve Busby

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to…

— Michael Lewis

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

— Jeremy London

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about…

— Hideki Matsui

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

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

— Hank Aaron

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

— Johnny Damon

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

— Alan Greenspan

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability…

— Branch Rickey