If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
~Dave Barry

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
~Humphrey Bogart

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
~Paul Gallico

A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
~Joe DiMaggio, quoted in New York Times, 30 April 1961

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
~Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
~Bryant Gumbel, 1981

Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion.
~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown

All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game.
~Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
~Harry Caray

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
~Gaylord Perry

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
~Red Barber