Baseball Quotes

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

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.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

A full mind is an empty bat.

He's the best prospect I've ever seen.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

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