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
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
- Earl Wilson
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
- Bob Lemon
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
- Phil Linz
When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'
- Willie Stargell, 1981
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
- George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
- Ken Harrelson
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby
Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
- Bob Veale
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
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
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
- Unknown
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 strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
- Lawrence Ritter
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
- Ray Fitzgerald
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
- Gaylord Perry
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
- Pat Conroy
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
- Yogi Berra
Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
- Wes Westrum
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
- Thomas Boswell
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
- Casey Stengel
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
- Sharon Olds
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
- Red Barber
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
- William C. Feather
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
- Bill Klem
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
- Unknown
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
- Tommy Lasorda
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
- Steve Hovley
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
- Leo Durocher
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
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
- Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a man maker.
- Al Spalding
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
- Robert S. Wieder
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
- Sandy Koufax
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
- Greg
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
- Lou Gehrig
Confucious say: 'Baseball wrong'- man with four balls cannot walk.
- Unknown
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
- Ernie Banks
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
Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.
- Walter F. O'Malley
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
- Bill Veeck
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron
