Baseball Player Quotes:

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

- Balthazar Getty

topic: Baseball, Player, Baseball Player

God wanted me to be a baseball player.

- Roberto Clemente

topic: Baseball, Player, Baseball Player

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.

- Roberto Clemente

source: "A Conversation with Clemente" with Sam Nover, aired on WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh, October 08, 1972.

topic: Baseball, Player, Baseball Player

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

- Hilary Duff

topic: Leadership, Sports, I Hate You, Softball Team, Inspirational Baseball

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

- Reggie Jackson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb, Inspirational Baseball, Opening Day Baseball

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

- Tim McCarver

topic: Baseball, Feet, Buried, Baseball Games, Baseball Player

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Baseball, Long, Care, Baseball Games, Motivational Baseball

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

topic: Baseball, Morning, Kids, Baseball Games, Spring Training

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

- Ty Cobb

topic: Baseball, War, Heavy, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

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 seven years without ever hitting the ball.

- Mickey Mantle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Athlete, Mean, Average, Favorite Sports, Baseball Games

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Softball Player, Baseball Player

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

- Ted Williams

source: Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Baseball, Men, Little League Baseball, Baseball Player

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

- Bill Veeck

source: Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

topic: Baseball, Moving, Years, Ballparks, Baseball Player

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Cemetery, Older Brother, Baseball Player

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

- Duke Snider

topic: Baseball, Looks, Pitching, Baseball Games, Baseball Player

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

- Willie Stargell

topic: Baseball, Games, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Little League Baseball

Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Baseball, People, Take Me, Baseball Games, Baseball Player

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

- John Kruk

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Player, Baseball Player

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

- Charlie Gehringer

topic: Baseball, Play, Firsts, Baseball Player

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Baseball, Player, Years, Baseball Player

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

topic: Baseball, Winning, Games, Major League Baseball, Baseball Player

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

- Dale Murphy

topic: Dream, Baseball, Real, Baseball Player, Playing Baseball

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

- Brooks Robinson

topic: Baseball, Player, People, Baseball Player

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

- Red Smith

topic: Baseball, Home, Men, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

- Chuck Tanner

topic: Baseball, Winning, Losing, Baseball Games, Motivational Baseball

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Motivational, Coaching, Magic, Baseball Player, Baseball Coach

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Inspiration, Rain, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Baseball, Running, Home, Baseball Games, Baseball Player

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

- Charley Lau

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Games, Motivational Baseball, Great Baseball, Mlb

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

topic: Baseball, Dad, School, Left Handed, Baseball Player

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that the can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting...It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

- Christy Mathewson

topic: Baseball, Heart, Player, Baseball Player

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

- Don Drysdale

topic: Baseball, Pitcher, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball, Mlb

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

- Joe Schultz

topic: Baseball, Boys, Squares, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Baseball, Crazy, Thinking, Little League Baseball, Baseball Player

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Baseball, Sports Leadership

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Football, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

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

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

- Yogi Berra

source: Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Coaching, Inspirational Baseball, Deja Vu

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

- Robert Frost

topic: Baseball, Poetry, Tough, Intervals, Baseball Player

How can you think and hit at the same time?

- Yogi Berra

topic: Sports, Yoga, Thinking, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

- Bryant Gumbel

topic: Sports, Baseball, Great Baseball, Baseball Player, Funny Baseball

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Baseball, Games, Twenties, Baseball Games, Great Baseball

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Games, Great Sports

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Money, Dimes, Good Money, Inspirational Money

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Notre Dame, Inspirational Football

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

- Pete Rose

source: Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

topic: Sports, Baseball, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Mlb

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

- Pete Rose

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Inspirational Baseball, Baseball Player