Innings In Baseball Quotes

#1. My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Damon Lindelof

#2. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

#3. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson

#4. Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just breaking away to commercial when Skip said, 'Free baseball in Atlanta!' One of the best lines I've ever heard.

Tucker Elliot

#5. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#6. Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Bill Maher

#7. Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

#8. This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

#9. The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#10. Everything that looks like a loss may be an extraordinary, successful life waiting to explode.

Mary V. Pate

#11. I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Alice Englert

#12. At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Kobe Bryant

#13. At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Jerry Coleman

#14. Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Leslie Jamison