And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.Eddie Murray
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
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.A. Bartlett Giamatti
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.Michael Mandelbaum
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.John Leonard
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.Ted Williams
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.Rogers Hornsby