Baseball Pastime Quotes

#1. Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

Thomas Yellowtail

#2. Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Vince Lombardi

#3. Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

Steve Busby

#4. Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#5. Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Ronald Reagan

#6. I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.

Jens Voigt

#7. It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony.

Nathan Hill

#8. And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

John Thorn

#10. Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Evan Bayh

#11. I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

#12. Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Bob Greene

#13. (N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Jincy Willett

#14. Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Pete Sampras

#15. Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

Billy Evans

#16. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

George Herman

#17. But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

#18. Being offended has replaced baseball as our greatest national pastime.

Kim Hunt Harris

#19. I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Tony Bennett

#20. People shave their heads all the time.

Britney Spears

#21. I won't ever tell someone to never hold on for what might be gone; because if they don't see it for themselves, my words will be just words.

Rayvon L. Browne

#22. Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Erma Bombeck

#23. You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun
after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

Ann Richards

#24. Even enemies are not indifferent to honorable deeds.

Arrian

#25. Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Roger Maris

#26. There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

#27. You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Harrison Ford

#28. Baseball is really two sports
the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Thomas Boswell

#29. You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby")

Alice Brown