B.A.B.E.S.-Worthy Quotes

Baseball was, is, and always will be the best game in the world to me. – Babe Ruth

“I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.”  – Robert Frost

Baseball is like church – many attend, few understand. – Leo Durocher

People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. – Ted Williams

Nothing’s ever been as fun as baseball. – Mickey Mantle

They give you a round bat, and they throw you a round ball, and then they tell you to hit it square. – Willie Stargell

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. – Yogi Berra

…the greatest joy a ballpark can bring us is when it is embedded in the real city, with all the energy, diversity, and dynamism a city can display at its best, and the exhilaration the baseball park offers becomes not only a celebration of sport, but of the whole of urban life. Paul Goldberger, Ballpark – Baseball in the American City