"I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile."
Tom Clark.

"There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit."
Al Gallagher.

"What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."
George Bernard Shaw.

"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove."
Vance Law.

"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror."
George Carlin.

"You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate."
Duke Snider.

"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.

"A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz."
Humphrey Bogart.

"To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback."
Steve Hovley.