Harrison Ford Quotes

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.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

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

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

To the world, you are America.

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

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

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

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

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.

America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit.

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

Baseball is our national game.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

Your country is bigger than baseball.

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.