#baseball

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#american #baseball #game #great #great things

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

#bat #give #give me #got #huddled

Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ↗

— Robin Williams

#basically #cricket #valium

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. ↗

— Ted Williams

#baseball #better #boy #chance #else

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

#got #i #knew #know #life

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#baseball #nothing

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

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #fastball #good

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#baseball #because #circles #could #guys