Pastoral Resources

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

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

I always get very calm with baseball.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball is a man maker.

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.