Admire Quote by George Will

It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I…

— Harmon Killebrew

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

When you hit a player in the head, you're more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the…

— Reggie Jackson

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

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera…

— Joshua Ferris

Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its…

— Kenneth Turan

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset…

— Mark Teixeira

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick…

— Stephen Jay Gould

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

— Willie Stargell