2,899 Quotes About Baseball

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.

If the USA had as many people concerned with their government as are concerned with sports this country would not be in the bad shape it is today.

Ain't no such thing as communist baseball team!

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.