Ernie Harwell Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Opportunity, Existence

• Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

  Ernie Harwell

  Softball, Baseball, Drama

• In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Team, Book

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Dad, President

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Race

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Growing Up, Kids

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

• A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Old Man

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Dream, Rookies

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

• There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Years

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Continuity, Seasons

• Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

• Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Jobs, Atlanta

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Teenage, Men

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

• If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Thinking, Years

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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