People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. — Sandy Koufax
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
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
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. — Joe Dimaggio
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in. — Brian Owen
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
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey
Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area. — Sue Wicks
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
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think. — Mariano Rivera
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. — Reggie Jackson
Short Spring Training Quotes
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. — Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz
Everything is practice. — Pele
See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. — Casey Stengel
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. — Earl Weaver
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly. — Jamie Moyer
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments. — Ken Griffey, Jr.
Spring Training Image Quotes
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Baseball Spring Training Quotes
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
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. — Jerry Izenberg
Your strongest muscle
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. — Dave Winfield
Spring Season Quotes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. — Charles Dickens
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. — Thomas Carlyle
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. — Mario Batali
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet
Champions train, losers complain.
Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful — Thomas M. Disch
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? — Neltje Blanchan
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. — Jim Rohn
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. — Ruth Stout
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
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
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 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
I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball. — Hank Aaron
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
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
Early Spring Quotes
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. — James Herriot
This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. — Patience Strong
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. — William Wordsworth
Champions train. Losers complain.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen
'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes! — William Wordsworth
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. — Rumi
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. — David Chang
The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature. — Thomas Roberts
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man? — William Wordsworth
Spring Break Quotes
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
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! — Mark Twain
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring. — Oscar Wilde
Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom. — Ikkyu
During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms. — Ikkyu
It's not Spring Break until somebody dies! — Daniel Tosh
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break. — James Wright
I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me. — Barry Bonds
Ah, passing few are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
Thou art a welcome month to me.
For thou, to northern lands, again
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear'st the gentle name of Spring. — William C. Bryant
This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work. — Brooks Robinson
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. — Pee Wee Reese
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill! — Mary Mapes Dodge
Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it. — Torii Hunter
I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training. — Jim Palmer
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. — Jim Evans
For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place. — Bobby Bonilla
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. — Bud Selig
The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start. — Eric Davis
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park. — Gary Carter
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. — Christy Mathewson
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. — Curt Schilling
I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove. — Jamie Moyer
I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite. — Jamie Moyer
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains. — Bertolt Brecht
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds. — Friedrich Schiller
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone. — George Will
In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV. — Hee-seop Choi
The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them. — Kevin Millar
The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that. — Roy Halladay
It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go. — Chili Davis
If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues. — Cory Lidle
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now. — Pedro Martinez
I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do. — Danny Bautista
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. — Harry Caray
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training. — Yogi Berra
I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers. — Graham Taylor
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior. — Gary Carter
I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good. — Vladimir Guerrero
The sound of the bat is the music of spring training. — William Zinsser
There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate. — Andre Holland
I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work. — Albert Pujols
He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone. — George Brett
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. — Lou Boudreau
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring. — Edwin Percy Whipple
What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it. — Tim Purpura
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