The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. — Joe Garagiola
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 games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike. — W. P. Kinsella
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. — Babe Ruth
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell
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
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. — Michael Lewis
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. — Leo Durocher
I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. — Steve Garvey
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
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
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
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
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
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
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
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
American Baseball Quotes
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. — Oscar Gamble
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
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you. — Leon Brown
Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny.
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
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko
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 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
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift.
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.
Baseball Season Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
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
The theory that religion is a force for peace, does not fits the facts of it's history.
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
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
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
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
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
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
If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague... It's just pointless and deadly.
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
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. — Satchel Paige
Baseball Life Quotes
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass. — Leon Brown
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. — Al Lopez
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road. — Vin Scully
Baseball Field Quotes
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
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! — Bea Arthur
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. — Mike Schmidt
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 investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. — Bryce Harper
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. — Pete Hamill
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Baseball Player Quotes
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
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
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 Love Quotes
Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world. — Simon Barnes
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. — Vin Scully
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world. — Ted Williams
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. — Eric Idle
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. — Ty Cobb
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. — Pat Conroy
I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13. — Dylan O'Brien
I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf. — Ichiro Suzuki
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. — Tom Seaver
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
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
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
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
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
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them. — Tommy Lasorda
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
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
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
Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history. — Lenny Dykstra
[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have
learned more about the history of
baseball, true history, than from
anything I have ever read or heard
about. [It's] research and documentation
clarifies so many of the personalities
and events that took place before 'my
time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's
quote: 'Whoever would know the heart
and mind of America had better learn
baseball' should be supplanted by [this]
biography of Landis. — Ralph Kiner
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
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. — Ryne Sandberg
Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. — Denzel Washington
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man. — Mickey Mantle
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition. — Andrea Tantaros
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record — Alfonso Soriano
I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired. — Tommy Lasorda
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz. — Thierry Henry
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. — Michael Lewis
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. — Douglas MacArthur
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. — Paul Blair
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. — Bernard Malamud
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. — W. P. Kinsella
Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer. — Jodi Picoult
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