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"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." »Walt Whitman
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"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game." »Glenn Dickey
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"baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl
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"Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up." »There's Something About Mary
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"baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field" »Jim Boulton
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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." »Florence Shinn
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"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine." »Joel Patrick Warneke
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"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp
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"Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk." »Harry Leon Wilson
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"My work is a game, a very serious game." »M. C. Escher
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"In baseball, you don't know nothing." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy" »Made
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"baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five." »Jerry Coleman
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"baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously." »Sidney Madwed
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"baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives." »Anonymous
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"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." »Phyllis Diller
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"baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." »Hank Aaron
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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"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 reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball." »Ralph Kiner
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"(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson
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"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball." »Gerald Early
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"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." »Mickey Spillane
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