Baseball is a man maker.
Al Spalding

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
Penny Marshall

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
Willie Stargell

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Leigh Steinberg

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Sargent Shriver

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
Willie Stargell

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
Willie Stargell

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Willie Stargell

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
John Lee Hooker

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
Rafael Palmeiro

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Willie Stargell

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
John Thorn

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
Willie Stargell

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

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
Suzanne Fields

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn

In baseball, there's always the next day.
Ryne Sandberg

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Shirley Chisholm