Brian Kilmeade Quotes

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.