Game Length Quotes

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

I wouldn't rule out the idea of four-day Test cricket, if we can get the playing conditions right and the right circumstances it might be a good thing in some parts of the world.

T20 has become a longer and longer format of the game. It is more than four hours in a lot of parts of the world.

Certain styles of play take a bit longer.

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

I personally believe that more and more players think that 10 hours is the right kind of play time for a game.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

If we want football to be a sport that is no longer a sport, then use VAR on every incident. However, if we get to March, where every point becomes decisive, then games can last three or four hours.

In T20, there's a time shortage because you've got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.

Nine games? It's too long.

Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.