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

— Babe Ruth

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

— Christopher Guest

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

— W.P. Kinsella

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

— Wade Boggs

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

— Collette West

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

— Jack Buck

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

— Michael Lewis

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

— Christy Mathewson

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

— Kevin James

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

— Kathleen Kennedy