Baseball Quote by John Cheever

Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to…

— Mark Kurlansky

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

— Gordie Howe

Baseball is part of our culture. It's part of us.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's…

— Tony Finau

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

— Branch Rickey

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

— George Will

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

There are a lot of advantages to being an American, but being an amateur athlete is not one of them. Other countries step into…

— Dave Schultz

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

— John Kruk

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably…

— Pat Connaughton

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

— Khaled Hosseini