It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.
A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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