Baseball Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“All sports are violent and represent primitive nature of our being, and before one learns that, one gets absorbs into the coded violence of…

— Raj Doctor

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up…

— J. R. Moehringer

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it…

— Gabe Polsky

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes…

— Keith Jackson

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

— Harrison Ford

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

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

— John Skipper

Baseball is called 'America's Pastime,' but you could argue WWE and wrestling is very similar. We've been around since the carnival days. People want…

— Kofi Kingston

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort…

— Thomas Boswell

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

— Mary Pilon

Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never…

— Carlos Cuaron