Baseball Quotes

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

Baseball has been very good to me.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

I am the best in baseball.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

All I have is natural ability.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night.

I'd say he's done more than that.