Balls Quote by Rob Sheffield

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light…

— Mary Schmich

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

— Thomas Hauser

When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

— Bubba Watson

In baseball, there's always the next day

— Ryne Sandberg

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

— Max Scherzer

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

— Cody Bellinger

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi…

— Ernie Harwell

Everything revolves around baseball 24/7 during the baseball season.

— Carlos Correa

Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's…

— Max Scherzer

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

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This…

— Roger Angell

“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms…

— Lori Wilde