Take Me Out To The Ballgame Quotes & Sayings

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to. — Harry Caray

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier

In East Bangor, Pennsylvania (population 800), there's a little diner named for the trolley that used to take people to the once-bustling steel town of Bethlehem. The proprietors have adorned the walls with photographs of other local things that are no more. There's one of the East Bangor band, a group of about twenty men and boys, in uniform, in front of a bandstand draped with bunting. There's also one of the Kaysers, a local baseball club, on the day of an exhibition ballgame against the Philadelphia Athletics. These were Connie Mack's A's, which team in those early 1930s featured Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove. How did a village of under a thousand people manage to have its own band? How did a cluster of slate-belt villages field a regular baseball club, apparently good enough to stay on the same field for nine innings with the Philadelphia Athletics? What — Anthony M. Esolen

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment. — Michael Keaton

One simple step firms can take is make sure that people that are getting paid a lot of money, say more than a million or two, that a big chunk of that money is deferred. That's going to change the whole ballgame. — Richard Thaler

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. — Wang Jianlin

The commentary came from millions of idiots on the Internet. — Neal Stephenson

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country. — Francois Hollande

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there? — Alex Rodriguez

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. — Thornton Wilder

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system. — Rand Paul

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. — Robert Breault

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food. — Michael Grant

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours. — Carol S. Dweck

Kiernan and baseball - it's like waving a carrot in front of a mule. Put tickets to a ballgame in front of Kiernan's face and he'll follow you pretty much wherever you want to go. After that first game we attended in 1905, it didn't take much for me to convince him to see another game in 1912, and then one in 1924, and so on. — Rysa Walker

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. — Albert Ellis

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower. — Gordon Brown