Good Baseball Quotes:

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

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

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

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Fun, Use, Yankees Baseball, Famous Baseball, Wit And Wisdom

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

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

- Walt Whitman

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

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

- Sandy Koufax

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, 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

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

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

- Dizzy Dean

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

topic: Funny, Baseball, Doctors, Stupid Funny, Stupidest Celebrity

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

- Casey Stengel

source: Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

topic: Sports, Baseball, Vices, Baseball Hitting, Baseball Pitching

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Baseball, Winning, Games, Inspirational Baseball, Winning Losing

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

- John Malkovich

topic: Baseball, Football, Father, Good Baseball

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.

- John Malkovich

source: "A multitude of Malkovich" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

topic: Baseball, Football, Kids, Good Baseball

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Baseball, Player, Looks, Good Baseball

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

- Bryce Harper

topic: Baseball, Player, Fields, Good Baseball

When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.

- Shel Silverstein

topic: Girl, Baseball, Writing, Good Baseball

When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.

- Erik Weihenmayer

source: Source: www.afb.org

topic: Basketball, Baseball, Player, Good Baseball

In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

- R.A. Dickey

source: "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Player, Different Perspective, Good Athlete