"What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs."
Harry Caray.
"Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine."
Pat Conroy.
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
Ted Williams.
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too."
Roy Campanella.
"I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
Ron Shelton.
"The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day."
Gabe Paul.
"The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck."
Andre Dawson, on Montreal.
"It ain't nothin' till I call it."
Bill Klem, umpire.
"They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans."
George F. Will.
"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport."
Philip Wrigley.
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