Baseball Games Quotes

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

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. ~ Will Rogers

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. ~ Herbert Hoover

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season
these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said? ~ George Will

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. ~ Ernest Lanigan

Ugh. Intense, yeah. Whew." She smiled, a little lopsidedly. "At least at baseball games you get to drink beer and eat hot dogs in the boring parts." Jamie, grasping at the only part of this conversation that made sense, leaned forward. "There's a crock of small beer, cool in the pantry," he said, peering anxiously at Brianna. "Will I fetch it in?" "No," I said. "Not unless you want some; alcohol wouldn't be good for the baby." "Ah. What about the hot dog?" He stood up and flexed his hands, obviously preparing to dash out and shoot one. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games. ~ Cleo Moore

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run. ~ Herbert Hoover

The game isn't over till it's over. ~ Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of this game is half mental. ~ Yogi Berra

It certainly takes grace to able to find joy in our hearts when people are experiencing joy over a gain that is, in some way, our loss. This involves more than just baseball games. It involves countless things that touch our daily lives. But God enables us as Christians to look at things not just from our own selfish perspectives but from the perspectives of others. ~ R.C. Sproul

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game. ~ Johnny Damon

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. ~ Pete Hamill

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people. ~ Mackenzie Astin

Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it. ~ CC Sabathia

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball. ~ Lance Berkman

That which interests most people leaves me without any interest at all. This includes a list of things such as: social dancing, riding roller coasters, going to zoos, picnics, movies, planetariums, watching tv, baseball games; going to funerals, weddings, parties, basketball games, auto races, poetry readings, museums, rallies, demonstrations, protests, children's plays, adult plays ... I am not interested in beaches, swimming, skiing, Christmas, New Year's, the 4th of July, rock music, world history, space exploration, pet dogs, soccer, cathedrals and great works of Art. How can a man who is interested in almost nothing write about anything? Well, I do. I write and I write about what's left over: a stray dog walking down the street, a wife murdering her husband, the thoughts and feelings of a rapist as he bites into a hamburger sandwich; life in the factory, life in the streets and rooms of the poor and mutilated and the insane, crap like that, I write a lot of crap like that ~ Charles Bukowski

My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment. ~ Lisa Unger

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think? ~ Chris Rock

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands. ~ Joe Queenan

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~ John F. Kennedy

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ~ Vida Blue

I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free. ~ John Cullum

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started. ~ Fred Claire

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion. ~ Bill Klem

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play! ~ Babe Ruth

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality. ~ Grantland Rice

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. ~ W.P. Kinsella

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. ~ Yogi Berra

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting. ~ Bernie Sanders

A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting. ~ E. Michael Burke

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen. ~ Richard M. Nixon

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low. ~ Chase Utley

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ~ George Brett

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

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. ~ Chuck Tanner

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~ Richard Gilman

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.' ~ Carl Crawford

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

My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house. ~ Jennifer L. Holm

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I. ~ Ernie Harwell

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. ~ Bob Costas

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game. ~ Don Larsen

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game. ~ Leigh Steinberg

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly. ~ David Wright

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he? ~ Charley Pride

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball. ~ Barbara Holland

Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them. ~ Derek Jeter

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day. ~ Kevin James

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea
or a single slab of o-toro tuna
letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties. ~ Anthony Bourdain

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds. ~ Red Smith

I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long. ~ Daron Malakian

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball. ~ Barry Bonds

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game. ~ Red Ruffing

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~ Bill Veeck

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. ~ Rickey Henderson

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games. ~ Matt Kemp

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there? ~ Alex Rodriguez

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time. ~ Mike Pesca

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter. ~ Joe Morgan

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior. ~ Thomas A. Edison

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader. ~ Casey Stengel

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game. ~ Roger Angell

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen. ~ Mariano Rivera

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. ~ Bernie Sanders

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental." ~ Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. ~ Yogi Berra

During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do. ~ Darin Erstad

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike. ~ W.P. Kinsella

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. ~ Pete Rose

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. ~ George Herman

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it. ~ Russell Baker

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. ~ Jennifer Garner

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~ Robert Benchley

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game. ~ David Wright

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game. ~ Ken Rosenthal

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip. ~ Alfonso Ribeiro

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I couldn't make my pencil scratch out the lines of Britni/Brenna's face. Couldn't make it curve into the contours of Dad's guilty eyes
his big secret blown up. Would he marry her? Would they have children together? I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing down at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living some life he'd probably consider his "real life," the one he deserved rather than the one he got. ~ Jennifer Brown

I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way. ~ Johnny Vander Meer

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. ~ Casey Stengel

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~ Roger Kahn

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball. ~ Eric Byrnes

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't. ~ Edna Ferber

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. ~ Chuck Tanner

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. ~ Ryan Reynolds

Speed slows down the game. ~ Tim McCarver

The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about ~ Cal Ripken, Sr.

Baseball is our national game. ~ Calvin Coolidge

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~ Bill Veeck

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

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. ~ William Howard Taft

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ~ Thomas Sowell

Probably the thing I use most in media is video games, but I have to limit myself. If I wake up super early in the morning, and I'm not tired, I'll play video games until everybody gets up. ~ Nolan Gould

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up. ~ Tony La Russa

You have got to love the game. ~ Lionel Messi

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well. ~ Alex Ferguson

Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet. ~ Gordie Howe