Quotes About Ballpark

#1. Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

Marc Maron

#2. I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love ... You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

Simon Schama

#3. I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

Rollie Fingers

#4. Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Harry Caray

#5. I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.

Gene Mauch

#6. The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.

Billy Herman

#7. The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Satchel Paige

#8. Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

Fay Vincent

#9. If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.

Yogi Berra

#10. It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

Red Smith

#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. Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care.

Stacey May Fowles

#13. You want someone in the ballpark and then you grow together. Thats what a relashionship's about: changing each other.

Grayson Perry

#14. It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

Richie Ashburn

#15. A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church

W.P. Kinsella

#16. If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

Matt Kemp

#17. Your guilt's got nothing on my guilt," Franny said. "Your guilt isn't even in the ballpark.

Ann Patchett

#18. Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

Bud Selig

#19. Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

Jim Kaat

#20. I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Casey Stengel

#21. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.

David Ogilvy

#22. A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said.

Donna Tartt

#23. I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

Scott Rolen

#24. You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

Bill Lee

#25. More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

Pete Hamill

#26. When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

Jim Parsons

#27. His participation was in the ballpark of a pity fuck.

Janet Evanovich

#28. You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it ... I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

Hank Aaron

#29. As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

Al Kaline

#30. Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Darin Strauss

#31. They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

Tommy Lasorda

#32. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

Bowie Kuhn

#33. The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.

Thomas Boswell

#34. Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

Roger Maris

#35. If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Yogi Berra

#36. Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

John Updike

#37. All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#38. I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

Barry Bonds

#39. I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

Bruce Sutter

#40. Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Walter Lippmann

#41. [B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Thomas Boswell

#42. His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

Neal Shusterman

#43. As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

Jon Lester

#44. All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

Marcus Giles

#45. Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond

Mookie Wilson

#46. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

#47. If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

Patrick Whitesell

#48. You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Bob Feller

#49. The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

Todd Helton

#50. This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

Leo Durocher

#51. I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

#52. To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just
to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.

Jon Schmidt

#53. You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Johnny Bench

#54. The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

Quentin Tarantino

#55. I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

Al Kaline

#56. The big ballpark can do it all!

Jerry Coleman

#57. I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Magic Johnson

#58. To my mom, I don't know how to describe my mom. She is the most wonderful person in my life. She gave me love. She took me to the ballpark when I was just a little boy running around, hanging around.

Roberto Alomar

#59. Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

John Thorn

#60. One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

Tim McCarver

#61. One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

Don Zimmer

#62. There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It's not for better parking. It's not for extra time to find our seats. It's not so we'll have time to down an extra hot dog, heavy on the mustard, prior to the first pitch. It's called BP.

Tucker Elliot

#63. We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

Nicholas Stern

#64. I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

#65. I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Frank Miller

#66. Not even in the right ballpark"? His experience sounds so much like a DMT trip that we are not only in the right ballpark, we are talking about the stitching on the same ball.

Sam Harris

#67. If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

Yogi Berra

#68. Words ... words were one thing. Actions were a totally different ballpark.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#69. I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.

Bill Lee