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Baseball

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
--Ralph Houk

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal."
-- George F. Will, _Men At Work_

"A baseball game is, like a sentence, a linear sequence; like a paragraph, it proceeds sequentially; But to enjoy it, you have to be able to read it. Baseball requires baseball literacy."
-- George F. Will, _Men At Work_

"Baseball fans are generally a cheerful lot, at least between late February and late October. (Literary critic Jonathan Yardley says there are only two season: baseball season and The Void.)"
-- George F. Will, _Men At Work_

"I claim that Base Ball owes its prestige as our National Game to the fact that as no other form of sport it is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness; American Dash, Discipline and Determination; American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm; American Pluck, Persistency, Performance; American Spirit, Sagacity, Success; American Vim, Vigor, Virility;"
-- Albert G. Spalding

"Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up."
--Bob Lemon

"I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays."
--George W. Bush

"They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids."
Tito Fuentes, Major League Infielder, 1965-1978

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

"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball."
CONNIE MACK, A's manager (1901-50)

"Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, and since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself."
-Dan Quisenberry

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-Earl Weaver

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."
--Pete Rose

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it 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 the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
--A. Bartlett Giamatti, _A Great and Glorious Game_

"...life's essential joys--receiving love, returning it, and reading baseball box scores."
--George F. Will

"The only rock 'n' roll song that should ever be heard in a ballpark was written by John Fogerty."
--Rob Neyer, _Feeding the Green Monster_

"Great trade!..Who did we get?"
Lenny Dykstra, upon learning the Phillies had traded Von Hayes to the Angels

"For a knuckleballer, a pitch count of 150 is not a problem. Unless it's the first inning."

"With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them."
-- Art Hill

"That's too bad. They're the only team I can beat."
-Pitcher Dave Cole , upon being sold by the Cubs to the Phillies in 1955

"In America, it all comes down to one word: youneverknow."
-Joaquin Andujar

"I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player."
--John Kruk