Michael Chabon Quotes

The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.