Baseball Quotes

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I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more… — Jonah Hill
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball. — Penny Marshall
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer. — Scott Caan
"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't… — Willie Mays
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America… — Claudio Reyna
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch… — Steven Chu
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned… — Bill Veeck
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. — Denis Norden
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. — George Will
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for… — Humphrey Bogart
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. — Jimmy Cannon
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games… — John Fowles
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for… — Mike Royko
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law… — Neville Cardus
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every… — Nomar Garciaparra
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger… — Paul Blair
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. — Rick Wise
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been… — Robert Benchley
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer… — Steve Busby

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