William Saroyan Quotes

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

I have so much passion for the game.

I love how professional sports unite a city and a group of people.

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.

When you've done it long enough - I've done something like 21 World Series - just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

Football is a game of emotions.

Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.

I put my heart and soul into it every single day, to go out there and try and win games for the Astros.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

I love football and I love winning, and when things aren't going right I get annoyed.