Ball game Quote by Walter Dean Myers

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

— Ty Cobb

“Baseball isn't just a game. It's life being played out on a field—a field of dreams—on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams…

— Tom Tatum

“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

“Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass…

— Mick Cochrane

“baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I”

— Lori Wilde

“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

“Phrases and images from the game filtered through his head... hitting the sweet spot, working the rosin bag, over the bat, going deep, in…

— J.D. Ruskin

“That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the…

— Jayson Stark

“I see great things in baseball.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

“On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you…

— Mike Lupica

“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