Baseball Quotes

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Baseball serves as a good role model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.