Baseball Quote by John Fowles

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball…

— John Fowles

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

— Jacques Barzun

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

— Robin Williams

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short…

— Harsha Bhogle

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It…

— John Montgomery Ward

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

— Jeff Garlin

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

— Douglas Jardine

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 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

I had to chose between chess and cricket.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

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

“The notion that international competition – the battle between one arbitrary, bordered landmass and another – is not political, is a fatuous notion. But…

— Daniel Harris