"You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." -- Joe DiMaggio
"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League." -- George Vecsey
"Beat the drum and hold the phone, the sun came out today. We're born again, there's new grass on the field" - John Fogerty
“Play Ball!” – Countless Umpires