Ernie Harwell Quotes

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

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!

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Can you believe it. That white man hit it out of the park.

I love to be around baseball.

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Baseball's my life.

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

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

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.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Baseball is a team game.