Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.