Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and
a game for all.
Lou Gehrig
General
Haven't they suffered enough
Beano Cook, on giving free passes to former Iranian hostages
The first big league game I ever saw was at the Polo Grounds. My father took me, I
remember it so well, the green grass and green stands. it was like seeing Oz
John Curtis, MLB Pitcher
Baseball is the only sport I know when you're on the offensive the other team controls
the ball
Ken Harrelson
Baseball is the belly of society. Straighten out baseball and you'll straighten out the rest
of the world
Bill Lee
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is
that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.
Bill Lee
I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
Phil Rizzuto
If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.
Sam Rutigliano, on the USFL
Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man ever come to perfection
Red Smith
I've had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of
skill.
Casey Stengal
The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never
been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"
Henny Youngman
The game of baseball has always been linked in my mind with mystic texture of
childhood, with the sounds and smells of summer nights and with the memories
of my farther.
"from the Boston Globe October 6, 1986 "Doris Kearns Goodwin"
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as
someone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man and the name of the