Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over read more

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing read more

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

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

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

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, read more

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men read more

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, read more

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.