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Top 20 Thomas Boswell Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Boswell Quote: “There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.”

1. “There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Cheating is baseball’s oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.”

2. “Cheating is baseball’s oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.”

— Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell Quote: “All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

3. “All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

— Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell Quote: “Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.”

4. “Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Thomas Boswell Quote: “A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”

6. “A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Baseball means Spring’s Here. Football means Winter’s Coming.”

7. “Baseball means Spring’s Here. Football means Winter’s Coming.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”

8. “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.”

9. “A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Baseball is religion without the mischief.”

10. “Baseball is religion without the mischief.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.”

11. “Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it’s beginning to seem that way. We’re reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.”

12. “Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it’s beginning to seem that way. We’re reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.”

13. “Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. ‘We must find out about this new weapon,’ he said. ‘Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?”

14. “Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. ‘We must find out about this new weapon,’ he said. ‘Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech – a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”

15. “Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech – a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”

— Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell Quote: “A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.”

16. “A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.”

17. “An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.”

18. “The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.”

19. “Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game’s best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.”

20. “Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game’s best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it’s just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.”

21. “Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it’s just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don’t count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.”

22. “I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don’t count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.”

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Thomas Boswell Quote: “Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.”

23. “Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.”

— Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell Quote: “As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters – knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.”

24. “As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters – knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.”

— Thomas Boswell

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