England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

—Robert Benchley

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.

—Jim Murray

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.

—Bob Uecker

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn’t give a damn.

—Jimmy Cannon

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

—Jackie Robinson

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

—George F. Will

You see, 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

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.

—Dave Barry

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

—Earl Wilson

I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

—Rogers Hornsby

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.

—A. Bartlett Giamatti

No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.

—Tommy Lasorda

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