You can’t get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza
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A man maker
Baseball is a man maker.
Al Spalding
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A red-blooded sport for red-blooded men
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion
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.
James Patrick Murray
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But baseball goes on
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth
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Drama
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
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Every day is a new opportunity
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
Bob Feller
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Great advantage
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the end it turns out
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
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It’s our game
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
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I’ll tell you what I do
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
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Many baseball fans
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson
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Only two seasons
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Bill Veeck
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Smarter
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
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The best game in the world
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Babe Ruth
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The most exciting play in baseball
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.
Hank Aaron
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The only field of endeavor
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
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The only orderly thing
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.
Bill Veeck
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You don’t play against opponents
You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.