Diamond Quotes

“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”

luke salisbury

“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he’s playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.”

ring lardner

“A team’s ability to execute the ‘fundamentals’ is inversely correlated to the time spent discussing the importance of executing them.”

rany jazayerli

“If it breaks over the plate, it ain’t a curve ball.”

casey stengel

“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.”

willie mays

“I found out a long time ago there is no charity in baseball. Every club owner must make his own fight for existence.”

jacob ruppert

“Sport is no longer a release from the harsh everyday American business world but its continuation and apotheosis. Those of us (fans and players alike) who return to the ball park in the belief that the game and the rules are unchanged—merely a continuation of what we have known and loved in the past—are deluding ourselves, perhaps foolishly, perhaps tragically.”

roger angell