"You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning."
Bob Sarlette.

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
Warren Spahn.

"I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports."
Stan Isaacs.

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

"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.

"Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up."
Sharon Olds.

"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.

"There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work."
Charlie Lau.

"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.