(12 quotes found)
“I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.”
Mark McGwire
“It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.”
Elizabeth II
“Naked I came, and naked I leave the scene, And naked was my pastime in between”
J. V. Cunningham
“Killing is practically a Filipino national pastime but on Mindanao it's an industry.”
Leonard Mosley
“Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest /thought, action /is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.”
Cesare Pavese
“As the president has said ... and as an avid fan of our national pastime, the president would be furious if there is a strike. The president believes very strongly that owners and players need to come together and resolve their differences.”
Scott McClellan
“We don't want to walk out there and get embarrassed. This is our national pastime. When you have your country's name across your chest, it's on.”
Jake Peavy
“I don't think there's any doubt everybody is looking at us and gunning for us. Baseball is our national pastime. It's always been perceived that Americans play the best baseball.”
Chipper Jones
“The Internet is super for the theoretical/dreaming/communicating of ideas side of this wonderful pastime, but "gardening" is a verb, and getting dirt under the old fingernails can't be done by computer. I don't see that it could ever change real "gardening".”
David Hobson
“I began volunteering because I was looking for a pastime and I wanted to see if I would enjoy it. I've been there ever since.”
Herman Puryea