Baseball Tradition Quotes

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.

It's always different when a guy gets drafted and developed and comes up in his first organization and makes an impact. There's something special and timeless about it.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.