Baseball Quotes

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

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.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

I didn't really say everything I said.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.