Donald Hall Quotes

Baseball is our national game.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

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

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

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Thank God for baseball.

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

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.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

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

I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.

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

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

I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be like my older brother. That just kind of was a natural thing that I fell into.

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

For me, baseball is everything.