Baseball And Life Quotes:

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

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Want, Baseball And Life, Baseball Managers

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

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

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

- Pete Rose

source: Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Being The Best, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

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

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Sports, Baseball, Winning, World Series, Motivational Baseball

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Baseball Games, Sports Football

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

- Lou Gehrig

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Baseball Games, Famous Baseball

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

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

[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

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

- Warren Spahn

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

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

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

- Satchel Paige

source: "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Sports Competition, Sports Spirit

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

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

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

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

- Bo Jackson

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Football Coach

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

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

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

- Mickey Mantle

topic: Baseball, Fun, Whole Life, Center Fielders, Famous Baseball

You can't hit what you can't see

- Walter Johnson

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

topic: Baseball, Baseball And Life, Baseball Hitting, Baseball Life, Baseball Pitcher

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

- Tim McCarver

topic: Baseball, Bob, Pitching, Baseball And Life, Baseball Life

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

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

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

- Bill Veeck

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

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

- Robert J. LeRoy

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Men, Baseball And Life, Baseball Life

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Baseball, Years, Ends, Days Of The Year, Baseball And Life

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

- Homer

topic: Important, World, Being Popular, Baseball Games, Complicated World

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, World, Mama, Baseball Games, World Series

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

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

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Sports, Kids, Yankees Baseball, Little League Baseball

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

- Yogi Berra

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

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Friendship, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Most Important Things In Life

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

- Jim Abbott

topic: Beautiful, Baseball, Beautiful Things, Famous Baseball, Baseball And Life

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

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

- Bryant Gumbel

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

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

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

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

- Chuck Tanner

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

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

- Satchel Paige

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

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Baseball, Philosophy, Simple, Famous Baseball, Baseball And Life

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

- Woody Allen

topic: Softball, Baseball, Guilt, Baseball Games, Softball Player

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Baseball, Real, Boys, Major League Baseball, Major League