Sport

# Citat Källa Betyg
1 Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. Joe Schultz. 1.25
2 Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminium siding on the Sistine Chapel. Roger Simon. 2.13
3 I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. Bill Veeck. 2.58
4 Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. Adam Morrow. 2.85
5 What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brush her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. Leo Durocher. 1.67
6 Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. Robert S. Wieder. 2.14
7 The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. Bob Uecker. 2.64
8 England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. Robert Benchley. 2.45
9 Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. Casey Stengel. 3.22
10 Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. Woodie Held. 3.09
11 Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. Dick Gregory. 2.64
12 There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. Tallulah Bankhead. 2.83
13 More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. Thomas Boswell. 1.80
14 Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. Mark Kramer. 2.14
15 Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? Larry Anderson. 2.56
16 Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. Bill Veeck. 3.31
17 You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. Bob Sarlette 2.43
18 Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. Warren Spahn. 2.33
19 A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. Ray Fitzgerald. 2.87
20 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. 2.23