American Baseball Quotes:

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

- Walt Whitman

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

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

- Thomas Boswell

topic: Sports, Baseball, Illusion, Baseball Games, Baseball And Life

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

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

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

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

- Yogi Berra

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

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

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

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

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

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

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Baseball, League, Parent, Major League Baseball, Yankees Baseball

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

- Yogi Berra

source: Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: Baseball, Future, Yankees, Catchers, Yankees Baseball

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

- Red Barber

topic: Baseball, Mind, Dull, Dull Minds, American Baseball

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

topic: Summer, Baseball, Thinking, Baseball Hitting, American Baseball

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Practice, Middle, Batting Practice, American Baseball

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

- Hank Aaron

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Humorous Golf, Motivational Golf

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

- Yogi Berra

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

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

- Hank Aaron

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

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Smile, Sports, Baseball, Smile On My Face, American Baseball

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

- Yogi Berra

source: Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Famous Baseball, Funny Baseball

I never said most of the things I said.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Witty, Said, Yankees Baseball, Most Funny

May the sun never set on American baseball.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Baseball, Sun, May, American Baseball

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

- Tom Seaver

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

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Bigs, American Baseball

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Sports, Baseball, Father, Sentimentality, Baseball Fans

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

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

- Jeremy London

topic: Baseball, Giving, Trying, American Baseball

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

- Hideki Matsui

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Years, American 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

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

- Yogi Berra

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

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

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

- Branch Rickey

topic: Baseball, Men, Swings, Exactitude, Syllables

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

source: Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

topic: Baseball, Boys, Men, Famous Baseball, American Baseball

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

- Johnny Damon

topic: Trying, Faces, Smile On My Face, American Baseball