Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.