Our national pastime

As the pennant races heat up and controversy swirls around the MLB, it's nice to remember that our national pastime has inspired more than a few words of wisdom. Here are some samples:

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

—Bob Feller
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

—Ted Williams
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

—H. L. Mencken
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

—Yogi Berra
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

—Ted Williams
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.

—Tommy Lasorda
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine 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
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

—Curt Schilling