Baseball Quote by Jackie Robinson

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all…

— Michael Lewis

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime,…

— John Thorn

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There…

— Curt Flood

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

— Philip K. Wrigley

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

— Walter O'Malley

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other.…

— Charles Comiskey

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

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

— Art Rust, Jr

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or…

— Charles Comiskey

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