The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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.
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
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.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.
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