Baseball Quotes

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

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.

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

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.