Baseball Quotes

[ALR-bishop]

"There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare "...Tallulah Bankhead

"That ball got out of here in a hurry. Anything going that fast better have a damn stewardess on it, don't you think "...Kevin Costner, Bull Durham

"If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play ?"...George Carlin

"Freddy Patek was so small that when he was born his father passed out cigar butts"...Joey Adams

"My last miracle was the 69 Mets"...George Burns, Oh God

" The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past. It reminds us of all that was once good, and what could be again"...James Earl Jones, Field Of Dreams

"A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at The Ritz"...Humphrey Bogart

"A few years ago they told me I was to young to be President and you were too old to be playing baseball. But we fooled them, and we are still fooling them"...John Kennedy to Stan Musial at the 1962 All Star Game

"Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on America than any other institution"...Herbert Hoover

"I'd watch a lot of baseball on the radio"...Gerald Ford

"I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball'...Richard Nixon

"He was built along the lines of a beer keg, and not unfamiliar with it's contents"...Shirley Povich regarding Hack Wilson

"Ninety feet between the bases is perhaps as close as man has ever gotten to perfection" Red Smith

"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything begins again, and blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face fall alone"...Bart Giamatti