Baseball Quotes

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.

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

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

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

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.

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.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

There is no defense against the base on balls.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.