Quotes on American Baseball

May the sun never set on American baseball.

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.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

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

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

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

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.