George Herman Quotes

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

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 can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Baseball's what I do.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Baseball is the life.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

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