Edna Ferber Quotes

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

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

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

Baseball is our national game.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

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.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

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

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

The peak of being a fan is a hotdog and a beer and a seat at the game. There's nothing above that. Nothing above it.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.