John Updike Quotes

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!

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

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.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

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

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.

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

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

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.

Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.

I believe in the country America used to be.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

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

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.