Action Quote by Cal Ripken, Jr

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason,…

— Bill James

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured…

— Mike Quade

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action.…

— Christian Yelich

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

— John Irving

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

— Frederick Busch

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on…

— Edward Abbey

Baseball is very much a timing game.

— Chris Sale

Baseball's just a process.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

— Warren Spahn

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

— Luis Tiant

“Q. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? —Ellen McManis Let’s set aside…

— Randall Munroe

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a…

— Richard Corliss