Quotes About Spring And Baseball

#1. If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

Sam Rutigliano

#2. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

#3. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Sandy Koufax

#4. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

James Nesbitt

#6. Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Thomas Boswell

#7. Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Marvin Olasky

#8. People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

#9. No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

George Carlin

#11. For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

Xenophon

#12. These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

Dave Winfield

#13. I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Steve Earle

#14. What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.

Kevin Keck

#15. If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Theodore White

#16. Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

Jerry Izenberg

#17. Event-driven investing:

Michael Lewis

#18. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern

#19. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Roger Kahn