Quotes about Baseball and America

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Votes: 3

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. Votes: 2

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. Votes: 2

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. Votes: 2

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. Votes: 2

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. Votes: 2

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. Votes: 2

Baseball just a came 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. Votes: 2

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. Votes: 2

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year. Votes: 2

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Votes: 2

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity. Votes: 2

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. Votes: 2

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. Votes: 2

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Votes: 2

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day. Votes: 2

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. Votes: 2

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me. Votes: 2

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. Votes: 0

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. Votes: 0

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States. Votes: 0

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Votes: 0

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined. Votes: 0

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. Votes: 0

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. Votes: 0

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. Votes: 0

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. Votes: 0

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. Votes: 0

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball. Votes: 0

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. Votes: 0

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. Votes: 0

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life. Votes: 0