Action Quote by John Irving

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 game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

— Frederick Busch

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 can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action.…

— Christian Yelich

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely…

— Roger Kahn

Baseball is very much a timing game.

— Chris Sale

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead…

— Brad Lidge

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured…

— Mike Quade

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and…

— Johnny Bench

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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