Doug Harvey Quotes

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of baseball.

I don't know anything about baseball.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.