Baseball Quotes

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

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

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

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

I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

They usually show movies on a flight like that.

I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'