When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball."…

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

— Phil Linz

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

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby

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

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

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

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

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

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

— Willie Stargell

I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and…

— Jacob deGrom

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.

— Mark Walter

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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 in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts,…

— Anonymous