Quotes & Sayings About The Rules Of Baseball

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do. — Harry Callahan

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about. — Pete Rose

There's no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It's just the rules. You could say it's against our religion, more or less. — Lisa Desrochers

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy. — Donald Hall

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. — George Will

One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up. — Mike Lupica

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time. — W.P. Kinsella

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules. — Billy Herman

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball. — Barbara Holland

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. — Herbert Hoover

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures. — Gene Logsdon

Business is a game like baseball or golf or anything else. I enjoy being a student of the game, and reading, and learning, and going to conferences, whether it's building custom homes or selling or servicing medical equipment. A good entrepreneur can be a good entrepreneur in any industry because if you're a good student of the game, the rules and the lessons are very much the same. And that's the fun part about it. — Ryan Diest

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules. — Nate Silver

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah
you have to stay away from the Padres. — James Siegel

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. — Marvin Olasky

American baseball, by luck, trial, and error, and since the famous playing rules council of 1889, had struck on an almost perfect balance between offense and defense, and it was that balance, in fact, that and the accountability - the beauty of the records system which found a place to keep forever each least action - that had led Henry to baseball as his final great project. — Robert Coover

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether. — Michael Eisner

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. — Joe Garagiola

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

It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living. — Bill Vaughn

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. — Pete Rose