Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. — Ted Williams
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. — Babe Ruth
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. — Rogers Hornsby
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. — Paul Dickson
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. — Tris Speaker
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. — Willie Mays
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. — Michael Lewis
Short American Baseball Quotes
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. — Tommy Lasorda
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. — Leo Durocher
If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything. — Chris Chambliss
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. — Dave Bristol
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. — Vin Scully
Baseball is dull only to dull minds. — Red Barber
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle
American Baseball Image Quotes
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
Baseball History Quotes
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball. — Ichiro Suzuki
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. — Joe Torre
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. — John Thorn
One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history. — Jim Abbott
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests.
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history. — Rafael Palmeiro
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. — John Thorn
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history. — Willem de Kooning
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. — Reggie Jackson
Baseball Team Quotes
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs. — Tim Mccarver
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
The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century. — Tom Trebelhorn
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. — Joe Garagiola
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that. — Jim Thorpe
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. — Jacques Barzun
Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars. — Louis C. K.
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
Great Baseball Quotes
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. — Tony La Russa
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. — Al Gallagher
I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads. — Yogi Berra
Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you. — Mickey Mantle
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella
College Baseball Quotes
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got. — Joe Namath
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon. — Donald Trump
I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it. — Tyler Hoechlin
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have. — Willie Mays
I'm honored to be on this list for the official beginning of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. The coaches on the list laid the groundwork for what college baseball is today. Being mentioned with those men means a lot to me. — Skip Bertman
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball. — Barry Bonds
I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games. — Todd Helton
I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock. — Skip Bertman
If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it. — Brian Roberts
I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major. — Charlie Day
Yankees Baseball Quotes
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' — Mickey Mantle
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko
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. — Graig Nettles
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. — Yogi Berra
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. — Yogi Berra
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. — Joe Dimaggio
Good Baseball Quotes
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer. — Branch Rickey
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
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
It’s not a very big sport in the U.S. if you compare it to American football and baseball and the other — Ingemar Stenmark
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter. — Joe Morgan
In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing — Dave Pelzer
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. — Humphrey Bogart
When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well. — Erik Weihenmayer
Baseball Season Quotes
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will. — Harry Caray
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else. — Wayne Gretzky
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. — Tommy Lasorda
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. — Alvin Dark
I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball. — Hank Aaron
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. — Sharon Olds
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. — Rogers Hornsby
Baseball Hitting Quotes
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. — Roger Angell
It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. — Branch Rickey
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. — Steve Busby
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. — Mickey Mantle
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball. — Neil Simon
I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball. — Barry Bonds
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
Baseball Player Quotes
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. — Tommy Lasorda
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. — Ben Chandler
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. — Pierre Trudeau
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. — Chuck Tanner
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. — Willie Mays
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day. — Branch Rickey
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. — Pete Incaviglia
My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
Baseball Quotes
Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend. — Anthony Jeselnik
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more. — Harry Caray
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. — Shirley Chisholm
Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? — Vin Scully
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. — Oscar Gamble
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you. — Leon Brown
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists. — Leon Brown
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost. — Leon Brown
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. — Walt Whitman
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. — Jim Sensenbrenner
Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life. — Leon Brown
If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right. — Tom Seaver
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. — Walt Whitman
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. — Carlos Slim
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. — Hank Aaron
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. — Jim Jarmusch
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this. — Leon Brown
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American. — Wynton Marsalis
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility. — Albert Goodwill Spalding
Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever. — Leon Brown
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. — Bud Selig
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. — Michael Lewis
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes. — Leon Brown
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. — Roger Maris
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. — Jonathan Frakes
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. — Jeremy London
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. — Phyllis Schlafly
Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues. — Joey Votto
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. — Parminder Nagra
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. — John F. Kennedy
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. — Nolan Ryan
Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior. — Thomas A. Edison
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions — Art Rust, Jr.
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball. — George Vecsey
To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. — John Cheever
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. — Herbert Hoover
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody. — Trey Parker
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. — Al Spalding
I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that. — David Beckham
Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche. — Jay Rockefeller
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language. — Morgan Freeman
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