Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Rafael Palmeiro

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Jim Jarmusch

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
George Herman

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Jim Evans

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
John Thorn

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Scott Hamilton

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield

I love baseball, and the door remains open.
Rafael Palmeiro

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
Gerry Cooney

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Jim Evans

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
Jim Evans

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
John Malkovich

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
Ryne Sandberg

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
George Steinbrenner

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Bruce McCulloch