America's Game Quotes

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

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, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

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

If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.

Baseball is a man maker.

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, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.

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 is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.