Baseball Books Quotes

#1. It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

Rickey Henderson

#2. I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

Jonathan Weeks

#3. READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Judith Viorst

#4. I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

Roger Angell

#5. It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

Landon Donovan

#6. The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Charles Kuralt

#7. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Beth Simone Noveck

#8. So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.

Zac Posen

#9. Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Yann Martel

#10. -our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.

Anne Fadiman

#11. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.

Time-Life Books

#12. As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

#13. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)

Jim Gullo

#14. Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

Action Bronson

#15. A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

Anna Quindlen

#16. Mention in baseball's official record books, however, requires that catchers play a minimum of 156 games in a season,

Mark S. Halfon

#17. Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Andrew Vachss

#18. I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.

Todd Lowe

#19. I've heard walking down a busy sidewalk in New York is like swimming in a sea of people. I love to swim and I love people, so of course I would love New York! -

Lisa Schroeder

#20. I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett