Baseball Quote by Mike Lupica

“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a…

— Peter Golenbock

“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.”

— Thomas Boswell

“Baseball can indeed break your heart, but, without fail, it will always find a way to make it whole again.”

— Stacey May Fowles

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other…

— Jim Bouton

“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They…

— Walter Dean Myers

“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

— Ty Cobb

“There’s no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It’s just the rules.”

— Lisa Desrochers

“...baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.”

— Dan Gutman

“We try to teach our players that baseball is just a game, this is not life or death; there’s a lot bigger things out…

— Brian Cain

“Life is also a lot like baseball. It’s timeless, boring, and if you’re not paying attention, you could get hit in the face with…

— Fred Stoller

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the…

— Jim Bouton

“Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t understand it.”

— Tad Williams