American spirit Quote by Ernie Harwell

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

— Harrison Ford

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming…

— Mark Twain

Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something…

— David Grann

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of…

— Philip Roth

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

— Thomas Boswell

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in…

— Bennett Miller

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

— Clayton Kershaw

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

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

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell