Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

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

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.

I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

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

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.

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

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

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

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

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

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

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

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

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