Baseball Quotes

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

~ Babe Ruth

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

~ Fred Mcmane

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

~ Tommy Lasorda

God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says.No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and listen to the drone of the crowd, as below me Shoelss Joe Jackson tenses, watching the angle of the distant bat for a clue as to where the ball will be hit.I think you're right, Joe,' I say, but softly enough not to disturb his concentration.

~ W.p. Kinsella

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

~ Earl Weaver

A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it is now quite literally the cornerstone of one of America’s greatest ballparks.(Fenway)

~ Nicole Mckay

The walk-off win provides one of baseball’s most thrilling outbursts, launching a couple dozen tense teammates out of the dugout into a frenzied mosh pit of elation.

~ Dirk Lammers

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

~ Bill Veeck

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

~ John Thorn

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

~ Bryce Harper

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

~ Masaharu Morimoto

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

~ Derek Jeter

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

~ Bob Feller

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

~ Yogi Berra

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

~ Bob Feller

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

~ Babe Ruth

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

~ Rogers Hornsby

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

~ Walt Whitman

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

~ Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

~ Ted Williams

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

~ John Madden

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

~ James Patrick Murray

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

~ Robert Kennedy

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

~ Branch Rickey

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

~ Robert Redford

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

~ Bill Veeck

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

~ Nolan Ryan

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

~ George Will

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

~ Jennie Finch

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

~ Jeff Greenfield

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.

~ Hank Aaron

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

~ Jim Bouton

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

~ Christy Mathewson

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

~ Patti Hansen

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

~ Itzhak Perlman

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

~ Christopher Guest

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

~ George R. R. Martin

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

~ Taylor Lautner