George F. Will Quotes

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.

Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.

The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game." "Did he cry?" "Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flame out. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond.

I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.