Quotes About Watching Baseball

#1. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

Bert Blyleven

#2. I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Adam Yauch

#3. 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

#4. Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

Woody Allen

#5. Fishing is like watching baseball, he says, in that it takes such total concentration that you shouldn't even be noticing little details like your arms and legs and head and mind and the miles- long strings of questions inside it.

David James Duncan

#6. I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

Noah Baumbach

#7. That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

Adrian Gonzalez

#8. I like watching baseball on TV. I love watching all the sports.

Bradley Steven Perry

#9. Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

Melvin Maddocks

#10. It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Laura Lippman

#11. Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#12. ladies were in the kitchen, industriously packing away into Tupperware containers what looked like it had until recently been a large spread of food.

Neil Gaiman

#13. I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

Vladimir Guerrero

#14. 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

#15. I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

Eric Bachmann

#16. There's almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning.

Tucker Elliot

#17. Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

John Thorn

#18. Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.

Mike Barnicle

#19. I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.
I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

Barry Lyga

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

Jerry Izenberg

#21. Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Bo Jackson

#22. By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

#23. There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.

Walter Dean Myers

#24. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

Jacques Barzun

#25. I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

Kevin Corrigan

#26. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

John Madden

#27. Happy New Year, Matty." She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. "Matty, I have another question for you." "Uh-oh." "Are you a skilled lover?" "And that concludes our evening chat." "I bet I could be a skilled lover. I'm very energetic. And a quick learner.

Jessica Park

#28. I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

Hideki Matsui

#29. I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Roger Angell

#30. I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

Gabe Paul

#31. The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

Phyllis Diller

#32. When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Betty White

#33. Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker

#34. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Jeff Jarvis

#35. The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

Chris Rock