Baseball Quote by Steve Rushin

“Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.” quote by Steve Rushin — Download Open image

“Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Baseball Baseball Consists Dullness Dullness Loom Million Tedium Threads Threads Dullness

More by Steve Rushin

Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,…

Steve Rushin

Image

Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At…

Steve Rushin

Image

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that…

Steve Rushin

Image

I'm a product of the 1970s.

Steve Rushin

Image

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

Steve Rushin

Image

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

Steve Rushin

Image

Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason…

Steve Rushin

Image

The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn…

Steve Rushin

Image

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57.…

Steve Rushin

Image

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of…

Steve Rushin

Image

“At that hour, a shaft of sunlight shone through stained glass. Which is to say, windows whose glass was comprehensively stained—by a double-glazing of…

Steve Rushin

Image

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how…

Steve Rushin

Image

Explore all 122 Steve Rushin quotes

More Baseball quotes

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to…

Gaylord Perry

Image

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Sammy Sosa

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Pee Wee Reese

Image

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

Image

Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is.

Ryan Zimmerman

Image

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some…

Mookie Betts

Image

I don't want the electronic strike zone. I like the element of sometimes pitches don't get called. Guys don't receive it well or whatever…

Kyle Schwarber

Image

I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which…

Adam DeVine

Image

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League.

George Brett

Image

In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just…

Vin Scully

Image

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy…

Harry Caray

Image

When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Image

Browse all 4,177 Baseball quotes

Baseball Quote by Steve Rushin

Related quotes

More by Steve Rushin

More Baseball quotes