Quotes About Baseball Fans

#1. People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.

Graig Nettles

#2. When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Clive Thompson

#3. Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

Christine Pelosi

#4. This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

Carl Pohlad

#5. All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

Thomas Boswell

#6. Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

Ashley Monroe

#7. For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Donald Hall

#8. Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Robert Orben

#9. Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Pat Conroy

#10. If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.

George Brett

#11. Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.

Drew Storen

#12. Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

#13. Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Wilfrid

#14. True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

Will Leitch

#15. Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

Harry Caray

#16. We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller's stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world.

Steve Garvey

#17. I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.

Albert Belle

#18. I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Garth Brooks

#19. I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

Jimmy Fallon

#20. Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.

Charles Comiskey

#21. It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Curt Flood

#22. I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

Mike Ditka

#23. My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

Chris Hardwick

#24. They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

Harry Caray

#25. If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

Jerry Coleman

#26. The Bird swooped down out of nowhere in 1976, stole the game of baseball away from the mercenaries, who considered it merely business, and gave it back to the fans.

Doug Wilson

#27. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

#28. Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Monte Irvin

#29. One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

Sharon Olds

#30. It took exactly one month of regular season play for fans to accept Sparky [Anderson] - posting a 16-6 record out of the gate has that kind of effect.

Tucker Elliot

#31. Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.

Bronson Arroyo

#32. New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

Dick Williams

#33. I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

Herbert Hoover

#34. Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

Roger Angell

#35. Activate your fans, don't just collect them like baseball cards.

Jay Baer

#36. Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Richard M. Nixon

#37. Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

Jason Bay

#38. 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

#39. Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

H. G. Bissinger

#40. I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

Pete Rose

#41. If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

Joey Jordison

#42. the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!" This was in New York City. In a room full of Jewish sports fans. I don't even really like baseball that much! I have problems.

Mindy Kaling

#43. Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

Jay Leno

#44. As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Bob Feller

#45. You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Pete Rose

#46. [On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Hillary Clinton

#47. It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.

Ryan Zimmerman

#48. Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

Thomas Boswell

#49. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#50. The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Andrea Tantaros

#51. If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Keith Olbermann

#52. The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

Andre Dawson

#53. I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

Herbert Hoover

#54. I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

Bob Dylan

#55. In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

Adam Dunn

#56. I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story ... I'm not comfortable doing that.

Bruce Sutter