Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
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
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 is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. — Joe Garagiola
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
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
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
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
If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything. — Chris Chambliss
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
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
Short Baseball Life Quotes
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. — Babe Ruth
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. — Bryce Harper
Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball. — Luis Tiant
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. — Leo Durocher
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. — Tommy Lasorda
Baseball Life Image Quotes
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Life Is Like Baseball Quotes
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. — Thomas Boswell
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride. — Alyssa Milano
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
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. — Willie Stargell
There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home. — Rhymefest
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all. — Harold S. Kushner
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things. — Criss Jami
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. — Rod Kanehl
Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is. — Joe Torre
Life Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. — Les Brown
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. — Dalai Lama
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. — Confucius
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver
My Life Is Baseball Quotes
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. — Bill Veeck
With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best. — Alex Rodriguez
Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball. — Rafe Esquith
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch. — Katie Uhlaender
What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better. — Brady Anderson
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. — Dave Winfield
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest. — Rogers Hornsby
Baseball Love Quotes
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
Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world. — Simon Barnes
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you. — Leon Brown
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
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 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
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. — Vin Scully
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
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 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
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
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
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
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
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
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
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. — Tommy Lasorda
[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
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. — Rogers Hornsby
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. — Thomas Boswell
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood. — George Brett
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
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
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
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
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
Good Baseball 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
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 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
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
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
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
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them. — Casey Stengel
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat. — Stephanie Klein
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater. — Ted Williams
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game. — Earl Weaver
[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington. — Hillary Clinton
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey
Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever. — Cool Papa Bell
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. — Ishmael Reed
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists. — Leon Brown
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball. — Wade Boggs
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
There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life. — Don Andrews
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. — Barry Bonds
I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park. — Babe Ruth
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life. — Leon Brown
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. — Dave Barry
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? — George Archer
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! — Tim Mccarver
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed — Bill Veeck
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived." — Ted Williams
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side. — Casey Stengel
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