Daniel Okrent Quotes

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

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

I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

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

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

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

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.

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.

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.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

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 has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

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

Any time you can go out and compete is better than getting on a practice court.

If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.