Baseball Quotes by Michael Lewis

“It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' -…

— Michael Lewis

“Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. “Lenny”

— Michael Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with…

— Michael Lewis

“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.”

— Michael Lewis

“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”

— Michael Lewis

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

— Michael Lewis

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

— Michael Lewis

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel -…

— Michael Lewis

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a…

— Michael Lewis

“To defend the Club against the new idea, the members had to distort the idea. By the end of the 2003 baseball…

— Michael Lewis

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the…

— Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here…

— Michael Lewis

“The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams…

— Michael Lewis

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating…

— Michael Lewis

“Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done…

— Michael Lewis

“First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the…

— Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye…

— Michael Lewis

“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on…

— Michael Lewis

“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human…

— Michael Lewis

“if gross miscalculations of a person’s value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a…

— Michael Lewis

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could…

— Michael Lewis

“The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams…

— Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

— Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being…

— Michael Lewis

“Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As”

— Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up…

— Michael Lewis

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series,…

— Michael Lewis

“As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (“Bud”) Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A’s success “an aberration,”…

— Michael Lewis

“The old scouts are like a Greek chorus; it is their job to underscore the eternal themes of baseball. The eternal themes…

— Michael Lewis