Bill Bryson Quotes

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

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Baseball, while you're doing it, you think it's going to last forever.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I miss baseball.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

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

I will never be able to break the hold that America has on me.

Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

I was sort of obsessed with the Phillies as a young kid.

I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.

The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.