Richard Corliss Quotes

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Baseball is a team game.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Baseball's what I do.

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

I wanted to play baseball!

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don't have to face him.

You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.

I think everyone's favorite part of the game is hitting - especially when you're having success - considering it's so hard to do.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.