Baseball Quotes

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

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

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

I'd rather be lucky than good

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.