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"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"
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Jim Bouton |
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"Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become."
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Mary McGrory |
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"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."
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Dave Barry |
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"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
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Ted Williams |
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"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."
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Humphrey Bogart |
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"What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."
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George Bernard Shaw |
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
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Walt Whitman |
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"When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back."
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Woody Allen |
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"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
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Jim Murray |
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"Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you."
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Reggie Jackson |
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