Baseball Season 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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

- Bill Veeck

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

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

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

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.

- Harold S. Kushner

topic: Baseball, Team, Winning, Baseball Season

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

- Bryant Gumbel

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

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

- Mickey Mantle

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

topic: Athlete, Mean, Average, Favorite Sports, Baseball Games

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

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

- Sharon Olds

topic: Baseball, Blow, World, Baseball Season

[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

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Days Off, Ballparks, Baseball Season

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

- Homer

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

Family is the most important thing in the world.

- Princess Diana

topic: Inspirational, Family, Important, Complicated World, Happy Family

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Baseball, Doubt, Three, Baseball Season, Three Months

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

- Rogers Hornsby

topic: Inspirational, Baseball, Heart, Inspirational Baseball, Famous Baseball

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

- Red Smith

topic: Baseball, Home, Men, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

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

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

- Herb Caen

topic: Baseball, Football, San Francisco, Baseball Season, Football Season