Baseball Coach Quotes:

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches

Quotation Tommy Lasorda There are three types of baseball players Those who make Quotes

- Tom Landry

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

Quotation Yogi Berra If you don t know where you are going you Quotes

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

topic: Life, Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Coach, Basketball Coaching

Quotation Vince Lombardi The difference between a successful person and others is not Quotes

- Tommy Lasorda

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

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

Quotation Babe Ruth Baseball was is and always will be to me the Quotes

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

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

- Pat Riley

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Inspirational Coach, Striving For Perfection

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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

source: John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage, Sports Coach, Sports Leadership

- Bryant Gumbel

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

topic: Beautiful, Motivation, Grateful, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

- Joe Paterno

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

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

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Commitment

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Softball, Sports Football, Motivational Coaching

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

- Lou Brock

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

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.

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character, Sports Coaching, Sports Leadership

- George Will

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

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

topic: Sarcastic, Sports, Football, Running Out Of Time, Inspirational Football Coach

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.

source: Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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

- Don Drysdale

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

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork, Inspirational Football, Best Coaches

- Rogers Hornsby

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

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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

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.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coach

- Ron Shelton

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

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Believe, Vishnu, Duncan

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching

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

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

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

source: Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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

- Jackie Robinson

topic: Baseball, Games, Want, Inspirational Baseball, Mlb

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

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 currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

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

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

- Steve Hovley

topic: Baseball, Perfect, Example, Baseball Games, Baseball Coach

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

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Mother, Sorry, Baseball Games, Baseball Coach

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

- John Madden

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Inspirational Football, Great Sports

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

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.

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

- 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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

topic: Football, Respect, Perseverance, Soccer Player, Inspirational Football Coach

- Mike Piazza

topic: Sports, Baseball, Honesty, Catchers, Baseball Coach

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Inspirational, Success, Tattoo, Baseball Games, Softball Team

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

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.