Baseball Quote by Bernard Malamud Download Open image “The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.” — Bernard Malamud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball History Inspirational Mythology Quality Whole
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past. — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Her face deeply moved him. Why, he could at first not say. It gave him the impression of youth--spring flowers, yet age--a sense of… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I don't want the electronic strike zone. I like the element of sometimes pitches don't get called. Guys don't receive it well or whatever… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League. — George Brett Copy Share Image
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
