Casey Stengel Quotes

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

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

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

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

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.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.