Baseball Quotes

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

Baseball needs more superstars.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.