Mike Barnicle Quotes

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Baseball is a game of inches.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?

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.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

I don't find that much wrong with baseball.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.

That white man not only stood up at the plate but knocked the ball over the fence.