Base Ball Quotes

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
- Ray Fitzgerald

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
- Lawrence Ritter

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
- Norm Cash

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
- Anonymous Author

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

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
- Jim Bouton

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
- Bob Veale

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
- Ken Harrelson

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
- George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997