Famous Baseball Quote Needed

badbluedog

I'm trying to find a baseball quote by a French philosopher by the name of Voltaire. I've done Google and Ask.com searches and can't find any sites that have this quote. It goes something like: "Those who wish to know the heart of America, need to know baseball."

Can anyone help me out with the exact wording of this quote and what the source was? Thanks in advance for any replies!

hhmag70

Wasn't the philosopher Voltaire a little ahead of baseball? Like 100+ years?

badbluedog

Yes, you are indeed correct - it wasn't Voltaire. But I'm pretty certain the quote was made by some famous foreign philosopher. Any thoughts?

nam812

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams” Jacques Barzun

hhmag70

I just recently heard it on an episode of The Golden Age of Baseball showing on FSN channels in the last 2 weeks or so but cannot remember who it was attributed to, sorry.

badbluedog

<< <i>“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams” Jacques Barzun >>



Excellent!! Thank you very much!

storm888

wiki

Barzun

otwcards

"There's no crying in baseball!" -- Jimmy Dugan

zep33

"We suck" - New York Yankees

mlbfan2

"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out."
-George Brett

Brick

"If my mother was rounding third base with the run that would beat us, I'd trip her." I believe that was Leo Durocher.

calaban7

Good pitching will beat good hitting anytime , and vise versa.---- Bob Veale--- 1966

Bigjohn69

Theres a quote I heard that if you replace the key word with Baseball you could prolly have a good quote, here it is,, "Theres only one word that holds this family together,,,, Handcuffs",,,, see if you replace Handcuff's with Baseball it could work , right,,, , bj

diamondman

then they give you money which is just like cash. Yogi

WinPitcher

Yep gotta go with Yogi.

LOL Voltaire.




Steve

Carew29

I'd run through a fire in a gasoline suit to play the game of baseball.....Pete Rose

pclpads

Ricky Henderson? LOL!

GDM67

"Boys, it's a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."

grote15

"If I Ain't Startin', I Ain't Departin"."

---Gary Templeton on learning he was going to be added as a reserve to the All Starr Game

PhilG

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

bxb

"Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel." Yogi

zep33

"It's a day later and we still suck" - New York Yankees

fur72

<< <i>"Boys, it's a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." >>



ROFL!

Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em. -Larry Hockett

bishop

"There have been only two geniuses in the world: Willie Mays and Wilie Shakespeare"...Tullulah Banhead (1903-1968)

HoofHearted

Hopefully someone could find an original play of this famous quote...

bishop

"I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive"...Roberto Clemente

zep33

"Derek Jeter has a cute bum" - Alex Rodriguez

bishop

"Here is a game in which there is no clock, the defense holds the ball, though it had rigid rules, every park is different, the greatest heroes fail seven times in ten, a game that is born in the spring and dies in the fall. This is life"...Ken Burns

zep33

"Anyone have Alex's phone #?" - Derek Jeter

billwaltonsbeard

<< <i>"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out."
-George Brett >>



What is crapping your pants in Vegas like?

summerof68

"I don't know how to make myself more clearer...I have NEVER taken steroids"--Rafael Palmero.

"I'm not here to talk about the past"--Mark Mcgwire

"No habla Ingles"--Sammy Sosa

"I told you so"--Jose Canseco

bishop

" When I was a small boy in Kansas a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend told me he wanted to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."...Dwight Eisenhower

melvin289

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."

Bart Giamatti

GDM67

"Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic."

That script is full of real wisdom.

bishop

"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen"...Bob Lemon