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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
-Paul Gallico

When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'
-Willie Stargell, 1981

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
-Bob Veale

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
-Norm Cash

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
-Gaylord Perry

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

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
-William C. Feather

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
-Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
-Joe Garagiola

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
-Greg

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
-George F. Will

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
-Hank Aaron

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
-Earl Wilson

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
-George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
-Jim Bouton

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
-Lawrence Ritter

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
-Pat Conroy

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
-Casey Stengel

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
-Walt Whitman

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
-Steve Hovley

Baseball is a man maker.
-Al Spalding

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
-Lou Gehrig

Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.
-Walter F. O'Malley

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
-Bob Lemon

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
-Ken Harrelson

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
-Bill Veeck

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
-Ray Fitzgerald

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
-Yogi Berra

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

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
-Bill Klem

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
-Leo Durocher

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
-Robert S. Wieder

Confucious say: 'Baseball wrong'- man with four balls cannot walk.
-Anonymous Author

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
-Philip Wrigley

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
-Phil Linz

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
-Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
-Anonymous Author

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-Yogi Berra

Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
-Wes Westrum

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
-Red Barber

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
-Anonymous Author

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
-Ty Cobb

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
-Sandy Koufax

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
-Ernie Banks

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
-Bill Veeck

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