A Quote by Roger Maris

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Roger Maris

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Roger Maris
American - Athlete
September 10, 1934 - December 14, 1985

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Bob Greene

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Erma Bombeck

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

John Thorn

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

Billy Evans

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Ronald Reagan

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Jeff Buckley

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Babe Ruth

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

Phyllis Schlafly

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

Nora Roberts

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

Mahesh Bhatt

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Thomas Boswell

I think you come to watch baseball, and if you're a true fan, then you enjoy watching baseball. MLB tries to change this and change that, speed up the games, but baseball's baseball. You can't change it. It's America's pastime. It's the greatest game on earth. I don't really want to change it that much.

Bryce Harper

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.