Baseball Quotes

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

If you're going to be lucky you've got to think lucky.

Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.

I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

At my best I was as good as anyone.

It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

It's what you're worth.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.