Baseball Quote by Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give…

— Walt Whitman

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back…

— Anne Lamott

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

— George Pataki

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

— Joe Garagiola

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that…

— Andy Pettitte

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

— Sharon Olds

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

— Mary McGrory

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a…

— Mike Piazza

I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those…

— Thomas Boswell

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

— Thomas Boswell