Great Baseball Quotes:

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

topic: Volleyball, Want, Great 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

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

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

- Sandy Koufax

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

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

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Major League Baseball, Softball Player

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Little League Baseball, Great Baseball

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Baseball Games, Spring Training

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

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

topic: Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Practice, Dangerous, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Running, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Baseball

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games, Inspirational Baseball, Opening Day Baseball

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

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

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

source: "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

topic: Summer, Baseball, Spring, Inspirational Baseball, Blossoming

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

- Bryant Gumbel

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

Swing hard in case you hit it.

- Dan Marino

topic: Golf, Swings, Cases, Humorous Golf, Baseball Games

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

- Graig Nettles

topic: Baseball, Boys, Player, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

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

- Woodie Held

topic: Baseball, Swings, Balls, Inspirational Baseball, Great Baseball

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

- Leo Durocher

source: Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

topic: Motivational, Integrity, Sight, Great Baseball, Baseball Managers

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

- Willie Mays

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

topic: Baseball, Looks, Jackie, Great Baseball, Pocketbooks

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Baseball, Dignity, Advantage, Motivational Baseball, Great Baseball

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

- Rich Davis

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Long Distance Running, Great Baseball

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Baseball, Kids, Made, Little League Baseball, Great Baseball

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

- Bob Uecker

source: Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

topic: Baseball, Careers, Funny Baseball, Great Baseball, Baseball Cards

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

- Ernie Harwell

topic: Baseball, Drama, Ballet, Great Baseball

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Thinking, Said, Crowded, Deja Vu

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Life, Thank You, Deja Vu, Great Baseball

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Baseball, Reading, Men, World Series, Institute

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Cutting, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

- Ryan Cabrera

topic: Sports, Baseball, Men, Great Baseball, Famous Baseball

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

- Yogi Berra

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

topic: Funny, Death, Hilarious, Yankees Baseball, Stupid Funny

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Happiness, Travel, Inspirational Adventure Time, Funniest Sports

It gets late early out there.

- Yogi Berra

source: Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

topic: Funny, Baseball, Work, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Men, Average, Born, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

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

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

- Rogers Hornsby

topic: Baseball, Golf, Mlb, Baseball Games, Inspirational 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

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

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

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

- Ron Shelton

source: "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Believe, Vishnu, Duncan

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

topic: Baseball, Heart, Green Fields, Break Your Heart, Great Baseball

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

source: Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

topic: Baseball, Boys, Men, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

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

topic: Baseball, Swings, Missing, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

- James Earl Jones

topic: Baseball, Army, Past, Great Baseball, Field Of Dreams

I didn't really say everything I said.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Yankees, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu