Its A Beautiful Day For Baseball Quotes

His hand was a claw, sharp enough to open her. She would be like all the others - Ruta Badowski, in her broken dancing shoes. Tommy Duffy, still with the dirt of his last baseball game under his nails. Gabriel Johnson, taken on the best day of his life. Or even Mary White, holding out for a future that never arrived. She'd be like all those beautiful, shining boys marching off to war, rifles at their hips and promises on their lips to their best girls that they'd be home in time for Christmas, the excitement of the game showing in their bright faces. They'd come home men, heroes with adventures to tell about, how they'd walloped the enemy and put the world right side up again, funneled it into neat lines of yes and no. Black and white. Right and wrong. Here and there. Us and them. Instead, they had died tangled in barbed wire in Flanders, hollowed by influenza along the Western Front, blown apart in no-man's-land, writhing in trenches with those smiles still in place, courtesy of the phosgene, chlorine, or mustard gas. Some had come home shell-shocked and blinking, hands shaking, mumbling to themselves, following orders in some private war still taking place in their minds. Or, like James, they'd simply vanished, relegated to history books no one bothered to read, medals put in cupboards kept closed. Just a bunch of chess pieces moved about by unseen hands in a universe bored with itself. ~ Libba Bray

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

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. ~ Babe Ruth

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press. ~ Donald Hall

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

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun. ~ Bill Simmons

Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question. ~ Baseball Prospectus

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

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

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears. ~ Laraine Day

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit. ~ George Will

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. ~ Ernie Harwell

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

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day. ~ Gabe Paul

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~ Woodie Held

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

Sometimes are feats aren't so fabulous, they're just dubious - but either way, they're fun to talk about. ~ Tucker Elliot

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me. ~ Hank Aaron

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something. ~ Nolan Ryan

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. ~ Babe Ruth

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

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player. ~ William Alexander

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture. ~ Bob Uecker

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. ~ Jim Jarmusch

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball. ~ Curtis Granderson

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams ~ Jacques Barzun

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. ~ Yogi Berra

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball. ~ Mark Mulder

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball. ~ Pud Galvin

The day that I die will be by far the most beautiful day I ever lived, ~ Catherine McNeil

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball. ~ Susan Sarandon

In baseball, there's always the next day. ~ Ryne Sandberg

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight. ~ Donald Hall

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

There is but one game and that game is baseball. ~ John McGraw

The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit. ~ Tucker Elliot

This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community. ~ Carl Pohlad

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine? ~ Fred Rogers

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island. ~ Jesse Jackson

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' ~ Joe Garagiola

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner. ~ Don Zimmer

Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan. ~ Laraine Day

What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day? ~ Mary Oliver

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

How can you not be romantic about baseball? ~ Billy Beane

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me ... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.' ~ John Kruk

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day. ~ David Lynch

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing. ~ Stan Coveleski

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling! ~ Michael Buble

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it. ~ Don Zimmer

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. ~ Yogi Berra

The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light. ~ Chuck Connors

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player. ~ Marsha Warfield

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together ~ Claudio Ranieri

I opened my Eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls. ~ Justin Bieber

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players. ~ Jim Courier

Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it ... baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son. ~ Tim Russert

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it. ~ Casey Stengel

I've always loved baseball. Ever since 6th grade, I was geared to becoming a baseball writer. ~ Scott Miller

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. ~ Hank Aaron

Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks. ~ Larry MacPhail

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. ~ Cass McCombs

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

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. ~ Ryne Sandberg

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. ~ Irvine Welsh

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day. ~ Peter Uihlein

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else. ~ Casey Stengel

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more. ~ Sammy Sosa

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing. ~ Dizzy Dean

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress. ~ Fay Vincent

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed ~ Bill Veeck

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

Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old. ~ Jane Leavy

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~ John Fowles

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day. ~ Giancarlo Stanton

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing. ~ Hideki Matsui

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. ~ George Will

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. ~ Pete Rose

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all. ~ Dave Winfield

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME! ~ Dave Niehaus

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. ~ Gary Sheffield

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap. ~ Bill Bryson

It's a beautiful day" – by which we meant that the weather was good. But we never say, "The weather's good," "The weather's pleasant." We say, "It's a beautiful day," "What a beautiful day. ~ Denis Johnson

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. ~ Mary Schmich

At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes. ~ Hafez

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

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players. ~ George Carlin

It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4. ~ Gordon Beckham

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall ... [p.218 ff.] ~ Ann Patchett

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

If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago. ~ Tucker Elliot

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

No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done. ~ Garth Ennis

Every day is the start of something beautiful. ~ Matt Nathanson

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down. ~ Bernie Williams

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that. ~ Steve Garvey