I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
LEO DUROCHER
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
LEO DUROCHER
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
MICKEY MANTKE
For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
EARL WILSON
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
HANK AARON
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
LEO DUROCHER
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
MICKEY MANTLE
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
MICKEY MANTLE
A baseball bat is a wondrous weapon.
TY COBB
Baseball is like church. Many attend; few understand.
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
CHARLES BARKLEY
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
WOODY ALLEN
We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.
WELDON DREW
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
TOM TOLBERT
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
ABE LEMONS
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
CHARLES SHACKLEFORD
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
GEORGE RAVELING
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
BILL VAUGHN
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SCHULA
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.
ERMA BOMBECK
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
ERMA BOMBECK
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLY
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
ED ZERN
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
ROBERT TRAVER
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
CHARLES HAAS
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
HERBERT HOOVER
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
DOUG LARSON
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
