Baseball Opening Day Quotes:

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

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

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

- Joe DiMaggio

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

topic: Birthday, Sports, Baseball, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

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

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

- Mary Schmich

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

topic: Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

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

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

- Walt Whitman

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

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Baseball, Dream, Morning, Baseball Games, Opening Day Baseball

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

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

- Rob Sheffield

topic: Baseball, Race, President, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

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

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

- George Vecsey

source: George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers

topic: Sports, Baseball, Football, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

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

- Earl Wilson

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

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

- George Brett

topic: Baseball, Blood, Years, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Hurt, Sex, Up All Night, Baseball Opening Day

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Sweet, Morning, Believe, Curveballs, Opening Day Baseball

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

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

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

- Reggie Jackson

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

topic: Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb, Inspirational Baseball, Opening Day Baseball

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Inspiration, Rain, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

- Phil Linz

topic: Baseball, Fun, Games, Baseball Games, Opening Day 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

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

- Jean Ingelow

topic: Flower, Good Day, Light, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

- Roger Ebert

source: Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

topic: Thinking, Giving, Television, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

- Joe DiMaggio

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Running, Peg, Baseball Opening Day

I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.

- Mark Walter

topic: Daughter, One Day, Opening Day, Dodgers, Baseball Opening Day

[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

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

- Vance Law

topic: Baseball, Looks, Gloves, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Baseball, Kids, Law, Opening Day Baseball, Opening Day