Mary McGrory Quotes

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

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

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

Baseball is our national game.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

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

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.