Action Quote by Christian Yelich

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

Baseball is very much a timing game.

— Chris Sale

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

— James J. Kilpatrick

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

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its…

— Willie Mays

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say…

— Charles Krauthammer

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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

— John Irving

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

— John Leonard

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes…

— Keith Jackson

Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.

— William C. Rhoden