Baseball Quotes

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

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Thank God for baseball.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.