Baseball Quotes feat. Devil Airi

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico, novelist and sports writer

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson, MLB pitcher

With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill, author

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. ~Jim Murray, sports writer and Pulitzer Prize winner

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, MLB franchise owner

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~Bill Veeck, MLB franchise owner

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, MLB franchise owner

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, MLB Hall of Famer

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver, MLB manager and Hall of Famer

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn, author

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles, one of the greatest British writers

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day. ~Gabe Paul, MLB executive

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, columnist for The Washington Post

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, first black man in MLB

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, critic

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~Ty Cobb, legendary MLB hitter