Quotes on Best Baseball

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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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.

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.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.