Best Baseball Quotes:

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

- Earl Wilson

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

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] 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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

- Bill Veeck

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

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.

- George Will

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

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

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

- Satchel Paige

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

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

- Tommy Henrich

topic: Baseball, Knowing, Balls, Knowing What To Do, Best Baseball

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

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

- Willie Mays

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

topic: Baseball, Games, Baseball Games, Gentility, Baseball Hitting

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

- Ty Cobb

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

topic: Baseball, Games, Kicks, Gentlemanly, Best Baseball

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

Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

- Terrence Mann

topic: Baseball, Past, Games, Field Of Dreams, Baseball Field

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

- Rogers Hornsby

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

topic: Baseball, Kids, Littles, Best Baseball, Autographs

Palming separates the men from the boys!

- Ed Marlo

topic: Boys, Men, Magic, Backdrop, Best Baseball

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

- Billy Beane

topic: Baseball, Best Baseball

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've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

- Susan Sarandon

topic: Baseball, Soul, Church, Durham, Best Baseball

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Cemetery, Older Brother, Baseball Player

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

- Jim Abbott

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

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

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

- Jackie Robinson

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

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

- Robert Frost

topic: Baseball, Poetry, Tough, Intervals, Baseball Player

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

- 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

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 like church. Many attend few understand.

- Leo Durocher

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Church, Best Baseball

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

- Tommy Lasorda

source: Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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

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

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

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

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

- John Wooden

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

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

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

- Willie Stargell

topic: Baseball, Squares, Giving, Funny Baseball, Baseball Hitting

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

- John McGraw

topic: Baseball, Games, Famous Baseball, Best Baseball

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

- Casey Stengel

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Sports, Baseball, Rain, Famous Baseball, You Can Win

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

- Leo Durocher

source: Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

topic: Motivational, Integrity, Sight, Great Baseball, Baseball Managers

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

- Pete Rose

topic: Sports, Baseball, Stealing, Playing Baseball, Famous Baseball

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Baseball, Dignity, Advantage, Motivational Baseball, Great 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

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Sports, Baseball, Espn, Sports Illustrated, Best Baseball

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Baseball, School, Boston, Best Baseball

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

- Geena Davis

source: "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Player, Best Baseball, Athletic Ability

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

- Willie Mays

source: "Willie Mays Remembers Mentor Monte Irvin". "All Things Considered" with Laura Wagner, www.npr.org. January 13, 2016.

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Player, Best Baseball

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

- Jose Canseco

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Player, Professional Athlete, Best Baseball