(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

You translate everything, whether physical or mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

[R]unning is really a team sport masked as an individual sport.