Roger Angell Quotes

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

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

The game has never seen a better catcher than YADIER MOLINA.

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.

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

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

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

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.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

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

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.

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

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.