George F. Will Quotes

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

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 don't know anything about baseball.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

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

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.

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe's best baseball writer when I was in high school.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

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.

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

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

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

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

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

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

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

Anytime you go to the All-Star Game, you recognize that it's special. It's an experience that you don't want to pass up.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

I know a little bit about a lot of things. I don't go very deep in any one field, except maybe '90s baseball.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

What's the best baseball name of all time? Is it Champ Summers? Clyde Kluttz? Razor Shines? Scipio Spinks? Sibby Sisti? Creepy Crespi? Before you answer, consider that Coco Crisp is not even the game's top Coco, an honor retired by Coco Laboy.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.