America Quote by Pete Sampras

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

— Harrison Ford

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

— Ronald Reagan

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

— David Cone

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

— Bob Greene

There's more in this world than just baseball.

— Anthony Rendon

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

— Chad Harbach

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

— Erma Bombeck

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled…

— W. P. Kinsella

Baseball is our national game.

— Calvin Coolidge