Baseball Quotes

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.'

Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

The game isn't over till it's over.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.