- "She wanted to pray, but then she felt guilty because she only ever seemed to pray when she needed something. She wasn't sure she even wanted to alert God to her presence here: The Girl Who Only Prayed When She Needed Something. It might irritate Him. Maybe she should just hold out, and pray when it was just for the sake of praying so that maybe God would like her again. But God (sorry, God), who could even remember to pray when things were just okeydokey? Good people, that was who. And she wasn't one of them." - Ann Brashares
- "My passion for this game lives forever because baseball lives in my soul. God put it there and there it will always be. Baseball is in every fiber of my being. I care for this game with my heart and soul." - Dennis Eckersley
- "Baseball fans see things differently. They don't see a sport, they see a game with a checkered past full of ancestry and superstition. To a baseball fan wearing the same socks all season isn't lazy it's selfless. A "lucky" jersey isn't for everyday wear it's for warding off evil, like losing streaks and batting slumps. And baseball fans don't see the season's end, they just see next year."
- “You know what they call that? Baseball. I've been in baseball for 40-some years and I haven't been able to figure this game out. That's what makes you stay up late at night. That's what makes you care. That's what makes you come back the next day and try harder. It's hard to explain this game. It's amazing.” - Charlie Manuel
- "They're here. Every April, they're here. At 1:05 or at 7:05, there is a game. And if it gets rained out, guess what? They make it up to you. Does anyone else in your life do that? The [Phillies] don't get divorced. This is a real family. This is the family that's here for you."
- "I don't know if this year will be different, but I do know this - if tonight's results are enough to make you pack it in, you were never up for this week to begin with."
- "at the end of the day when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. so this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other is usually a load of bull. so we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. no matter how much we hurt them, the people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. and sure, sometimes close can be too close. but sometimes that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need." - Grey's Anatomy
- "Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. 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. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come." - Field of Dreams
- "Well, you know I... I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases — stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?" - Field of Dreams
- "I discovered that girls are girls, feeling are always feelings, whether it's 1895 or 2005. Those feelings - the desire to be loved and understood, the fear of disappointing others, longings and yearnings, fear of and curiosity about the unknown - are timeless. The difficulties of growing into selfhood are the same, in many ways." - Libba Bray
- "Swing and a miss! Struck him out! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball! Brad Lidge does it again and saves perfect for the 2008 season, 48-48 in save opportunities. And let the city celebrate!" - Harry Kalas
- "Baseball means what those of us who hold it in our hearts need it to mean. It can be a pastime, or it can be something by which we measure the seasons of our lives, or it can be something that serves metaphorically for the battles, the triumphs, and the tragedies of any form of human content. I prefer it to be a game- and I think, more than anything else, it tells me that there's something in the world that I can count on- and it's never going to let me down. If there is a magic in baseball, I'm sure that's what it is." - Daniel Okrent
- "If you could look past Ben Franklin and William Penn, Harry may have been the greatest person ever to grace Philadelphia. You think about it. As many lives as he affected over the time that he lived in Philadelphia and around this area, who would have had a bigger impact on this city? I can't think of anybody." - Mike Schmidt
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