Quotes on Baseball Opening Day

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

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

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.