Baseball 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

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

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

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball, Race, Matter, Common Decency

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

topic: Baseball, People, Know Me

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

topic: Baseball, Memories, Twilight, Passage Of Time

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

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

topic: Baseball, Sorry, Player, Banishment

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

topic: Baseball, Home, Journey, Homecoming, Skimming

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball, Talking, Yogi

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Christian, Baseball, Dream

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball, Home, College, Little League

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

source: Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

topic: Baseball, Believe, Law

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball, Dislocation

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Baseball, Games, Literature

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

- Abel Ferrara

topic: Baseball, Guitar, Creative

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.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.

- Adam Sandler

source: "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

topic: Baseball, School, League, Little League Baseball, Little League

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

- Adam Yauch

source: "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Football

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

- Aidan Quinn

source: "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Baseball, Boys, Eight

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

topic: Baseball, Order, Three, Funny Baseball, Baseball And Life

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.

- Al Stump

source: "Cobb: A Biography".

topic: Baseball, Careers, Answers

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Success, Baseball, Business, Nice Guy, American Baseball

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

- Alan Ritchson

source: "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

topic: Baseball, Growing Up, Book, Third Grade, Baseball Cards

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

- Albert Allen Bartlett

topic: Baseball, America, Design

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

topic: Baseball, Boys, Men, Reliance, Poise

Baseball is a man maker.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

topic: Baseball, Men, Makers

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

topic: Baseball, Games, Genius

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

source: Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”

topic: Baseball, Determination, Discipline, Exponents, Eagerness

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Baseball, Play, Bigger

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Baseball, Important, Trying

People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Believe, God Has Blessed Me

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Baseball, Play, Republic, Dominican Republic

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

- Albert Pujols

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Christ

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

- Albert Theodore Powers

source: Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

topic: Baseball, Father, Sunshine, Green Grass

I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.

- Alex Bregman

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Team

I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.

- Alex Bregman

topic: Baseball, Team, Kids

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Baseball, Play, Lucky

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been in a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Baseball, Strong, Fields, Seattle, Baseball Field

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Sports, Baseball, Jobs, Baseball Field, Narrow Path

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Baseball, Player, Reality

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

- Alex Trebek

topic: Baseball, Beam, Should, Baseball Caps

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

- Alfonso Soriano

topic: Baseball, Running, Home, Baseball History

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

- Alice Duer Miller

topic: Baseball, Women, Emotional

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

- Alvin Dark

topic: Baseball, Trying, Communist

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

- Alvin Dark

topic: Baseball, Games, Forgotten

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

topic: Baseball, Sunshine, Player, Baseball Games, Really Living

There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

- Alvin Dark

topic: Baseball, Real, Grandmother, Three Year Olds

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Baseball, Childhood

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Baseball, Sight, Games

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

source: "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Thinking

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

- Andre Dawson

topic: Baseball, Hockey, Feelings

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

- Andrew Bogut

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

topic: Baseball, Fans

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Baseball, Gun, Thinking

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

- Andy Van Slyke

topic: Baseball, Bats, Relief

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

- Andy Van Slyke

topic: Country, Baseball, Giving

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

- Andy Van Slyke

source: "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 01, 2008.

topic: Baseball, Father, Kids, Easy Answers

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

- Ann Richards

topic: Baseball, Fun, Cells

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Party, Landscaping, Slabs

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Love, Baseball, Running, Live Love

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Sports, Baseball, Real, Satanism

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

- Art Rust, Jr.

topic: Depression, Baseball, War, Court Decision

You can't win them all but you can try.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Baseball, Winning, Trying, Track And Field

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Success, Baseball, Simple

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

source: Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Goal

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

topic: Baseball, Real, Winning, Good Sportsmanship, Real Victory

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

- Babe Ruth

source: Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games, Yankees Baseball, Motivational Baseball

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Success, Baseball, Crazy, Softball Team, Inspirational 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

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Love You, Games

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Next, Flagpoles

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. 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

topic: Baseball, Running, Home, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Years

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Running, Opening Day Baseball, Funny Baseball

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

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Games, Giving, Greatest Baseball, Deserve The Best

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Sock, Ask Me, Famous Baseball

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Kids, Heaven

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Mean, Roots, World Series, Two Worlds

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Singles, Home Run, Baseball Managers

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Advice, Something New

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Relationship, Sports, Baseball, Striking Out

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Boys, America

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Men, Differences, Vaudeville

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Years, Hell, Hoover

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Games, Play, Don't Give A Damn, I Don't Give A Damn

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Lasts

The termites have got me.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Crowds, Strikeouts

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Cheer

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Real, Thinking

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Giving Up, Too Much Fun

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Baseball, Believe, Two

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Lonesome, Awake

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

topic: Baseball, Growing Up, Mean

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Years, Hoover

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Brother, Father

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Hell, Hotter

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Two, Sick

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Years, Giving, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Running, Baseball, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

- Balthazar Getty

topic: Baseball, Team, Stuff, Baseball Team

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

- Balthazar Getty

topic: Baseball, Player, Baseball Player

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

- Ban Johnson

topic: Baseball, Umpires

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

- Barbara Holland

topic: Sports, Baseball, Circles, Headmasters

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball

- Barry Bonds

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

topic: Baseball, Player, Needs

Baseball is just my job.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Ties

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Home, Ties

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Born

I don't know if ***** are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe ***** can help eye-hand coordination [and] technically hit a baseball.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Believe, Eye

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Sports, Baseball, Father

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, College, Thinking, College Baseball

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Dad, Boys

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Football

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

- Barry Lyga

topic: Baseball, Team, Men, Individual Achievement, Sitting On The Bench

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

- Barry S. Strauss

topic: Baseball, Workout, Wings, Oar, Back Again

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

- Barry Switzer

source: "Dreading a Tie Vote in the Electoral College". www.omaha.com. October 12, 2004.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Thinking, Humility And Modesty

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

source: TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

topic: Baseball, Lovely, Fields, Wrigley Field

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Baseball, Nice, Math

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

- Ben Chandler

topic: Baseball, Player, Planning, Curveballs

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

- Ben Elton

source: 1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.

topic: Baseball, Oasis, Vote, Baseball Caps

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

- Ben Gibbard

topic: Baseball, Gun, Player, Fastballs

We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

- Bengie Molina

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Baseball, Player, Guy, Hey You

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

- Bengie Molina

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Brother

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

- Bengie Molina

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Mom, Baseball, Brother

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

- Bengie Molina

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Sports, Baseball, Motivation

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Baseball, Quality, Mythology

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

- Betsy Byars

topic: Baseball, Writing, Piano, Piano Playing, Playing Piano

Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

- Beverly Johnson

topic: Softball, Sports, Baseball

The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

- Bill Anderson

topic: Baseball, Country, Player, Yankee Stadium, Country Singer

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

- Bill Bradley

source: Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks

topic: Baseball, Numbers, Becoming

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Baseball, Football, Latin, Infinitive, English Grammar

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

- Bill Buckner

topic: Baseball, Average, Games

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

- Bill de Blasio

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

topic: Baseball, Fans, Obsessed, Mlb, Baseball Fans

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

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

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Mind, Catchers

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

- Bill Goldberg

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Football, Free Agency

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

- Bill James

topic: Baseball, Mean, Thinking, Think Twice

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

- Bill James

source: Bill James (1988). “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Baseball, Running, Defense

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

- Bill James

topic: Baseball, Cereal, People, Breakfast Cereal

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

topic: Baseball, Mind, My Family

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

- Bill James

topic: Baseball, Fun, Made

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

- Bill James

topic: Baseball, Player, Years

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

- Bill Klem

topic: Baseball, Games

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

- Bill Klem

topic: Baseball, Eye, Play

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

- Bill Klem

topic: Baseball, Games

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

- Bill Klem

topic: Baseball, Men, Games

It ain't nothing till I call it.

- Bill Klem

topic: Baseball, Famous Baseball

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

- Bill Lee

topic: Baseball, Beer, Buttons, Nickels, Belly Buttons

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

- Bill Simmons

topic: Baseball, Fun, Winning

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Baseball, Fit, Stadiums, Parking, Physically Fit

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Baseball, Umpires, Jockeys, Maybe Someday, Parking

There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Baseball

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Winter, Two, Winter Season, Mlb

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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Trying, Tests, Elasticity

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Self, Wounds, Self Inflicted

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 is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Paper, Clip, Paper Clips, Baseball And Life

An island of surety in a changing world.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Islands, World

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Motivational, Baseball, People

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

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Wall, Reading, Grover, Wall Street Journal

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Football, Width

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Men, People, Lancelot, Galahad

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Games, Too Late

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

topic: Baseball, Art, Hate, Yankees Baseball

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

- Bill Veeck

source: Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

topic: Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Team, Player, Courthouses

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Rooms, Individualism, Ballparks

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Running, Joy

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

- Billy Beane

topic: Baseball, Best Baseball

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

- Billy Beane

topic: Baseball, Reality, Faces

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Baseball, Oklahoma, Mitzvah, Imitating, Bar Mitzvah

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

- Billy Herman

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

topic: Baseball, Broken, Made

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

- Billy Mays

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

topic: Baseball, Running, Home

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Soccer, Baseball, Football

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Baseball, Action, Pitcher

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Soccer, Baseball, Football

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Soccer, Baseball, Football

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

- Bo Jackson

source: Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

topic: Sports, Baseball, Football, American Football, Funny American Football

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Baseball, Play, Everyday

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Baseball, Focused

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

- Bo Jackson

topic: Baseball, Two

I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

- Bo Jackson

source: Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

topic: Baseball, College, Men, Just Kids, Aluminum

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Confused, Thinking

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Mickey

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Strong, Hero

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Games, Doe

His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Real, Doctors, Starks

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the ***** test, you failed the IQ test.

- Bob Costas

topic: Baseball, Player, Tests

The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

- Bob DuPuy

topic: Baseball, Winning, Years

We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

- Bob DuPuy

topic: Baseball, Believe, Agreement, Lease

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Baseball, Football, Player

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

topic: Baseball, Opportunity, Yesterday, Baseball Games, Opening Day Baseball

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

- Bob Feller

source: Bob Feller (1947). “Strikeout Story”

topic: Sports, Baseball, Yankees, Yankees Baseball

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

- Bob Feller

topic: Baseball, Fun, League

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

- Bob Feller

topic: Baseball, Father, Thinking

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

- Bob Feller

topic: Running, Country, Baseball, Juvenile Delinquency, Delinquency

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

- Bob Feller

topic: Sports, Baseball, War

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

- Bob Feller

topic: Sports, Baseball, Hair, Packing, Hair Dryers

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

- Bob Feller

topic: Sports, Baseball, Thinking

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

- Bob Feller

source: "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

topic: Teamwork, Baseball, Men, Baseball Team