Quotes by Baseball Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home. A. Bartlett Giamatti journey baseball home Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field. A. Bartlett Giamatti baseball believe america All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were. A. Bartlett Giamatti baseball christian dream [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. A. Bartlett Giamatti green-fields baseball heart Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. A. Bartlett Giamatti yogi baseball talking For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. A. Bartlett Giamatti baseball literature games There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. A. Bartlett Giamatti ghouls baseball people You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. A. Bartlett Giamatti twilight baseball memories We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. A. Bartlett Giamatti college baseball home The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust. A. Bartlett Giamatti player baseball america On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. A. Bartlett Giamatti common-decency race baseball There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. A. Bartlett Giamatti baseball The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. A. Bartlett Giamatti player baseball sorry Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. A. Bartlett Giamatti dislocation whole baseball I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. Abel Ferrara guitar creative baseball I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball. Adam Dunn baseball play fun I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural. Adam Dunn bigs baseball natural At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. Adam Dunn player baseball football In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day. Adam Dunn done baseball play In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush. Adam Dunn single-mom baseball football 1234567891011»
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