220 Baseball Quotes

Following is our list of baseball quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about love of baseball.

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Famous Baseball Quotes

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel

God, I just love baseball. - Robert Redford

God, I just love baseball. — Robert Redford

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

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 was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. - Babe Ruth

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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 what we were, and football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. - Mickey Mantle

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. - Curt Flood

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. — Leo Durocher

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. — Paul Dickson

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell

Short Baseball Quotes

  • What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
  • Back, back, back, back. Gone. — Chris Berman
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? — Vin Scully
  • Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. — Yogi Berra
  • Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. — Frank Robinson
  • I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner

Baseball Image Quotes

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth. - Roberto Clemente quote

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth. — Roberto Clemente

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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Youth Baseball Quotes

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. — Babe Ruth

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. — Bud Selig

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

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well. — Joe Maddon

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar. — Bob Lemon

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

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times. — Vladimir Guerrero

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it. — Gerry Cooney

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences. — Kirk Ferentz

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs. — Steve Garvey

Love Of Baseball Quotes

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

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

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

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

Team Baseball 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

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. — Charlie Finley

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

Family Baseball Quotes

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

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball. — Luis Tiant

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

Other than hitting the ball...there's nothing else I have ever done or know how to do. How to live on the outside, how to earn a living, how to take of my family, I'm a stupid idiot who doesn't know how to do any of that. Therefore...Please let me play baseball. — Kim Young-kwang

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. — Barry Pepper

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life. — Ray Kinsella

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you. — Trevor Bayne

Baseball life is a tough life on the family. — Nolan Ryan

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball. — Bill James

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

Catcher Baseball Quotes

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls. — Casey Stengel

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' — Bill Dickey

My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles? — Emo Philips

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear. — Max De Pree

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves. — Bob Uecker

When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still. — Bill Murray

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball. — Tim DeKay

Movie Baseball Quotes

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

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing. — Martha Graham

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies. — Javier Bardem

Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. — Bradley Cooper

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees. — Christopher Walken

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. — Sutton Foster

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally. — Callie Khouri

Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks

I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can. — Adam Sandler

Baseball Games Quotes

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, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. — George Will

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

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting. — Bernie Sanders

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. — Earl Weaver

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 isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays

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

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain. — Casey Stengel

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

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

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz

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

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

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

Baseball Life Quotes

I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby

I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby

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

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

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson

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

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

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

Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. — Tommy Lasorda

Baseball Hitting Quotes

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

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

See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held

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

Baseball Love 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

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

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

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

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

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting. — Bert Blyleven

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it. — Vin Scully

Swing hard in case you hit it. — Dan Marino

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

You can't win them all but you can try. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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.

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

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads. — Yogi Berra

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

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 Pitching Quotes

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. - Greg Maddux

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement. — Jamie Moyer

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey Stengel

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. — Satchel Paige

I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do. — Satchel Paige

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

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. — Lefty Gomez

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch. — Reggie Jackson

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. — Robert Frost

Baseball History Quotes

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

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

Baseball Season Quotes

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck

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

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

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. — John Thorn

I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes. — Albert Belle

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability. — Carl Yastrzemski

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More 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

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

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans. — Harry Caray

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out. — Mickey Mantle

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat. — Louis Tomlinson

They don't think it be like it is, but it do. — Oscar Gamble

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. — Frank Zappa

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball. — Chuck Tanner

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson

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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — Casey Stengel

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment. — Ron White

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that? — Chris McCormack

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' — Robin Williams

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. — Sandy Koufax

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