Greatest Baseball Quotes:

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

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

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 ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Football, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

[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

How can you think and hit at the same time?

- Yogi Berra

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

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Change, Baseball, Yankees Baseball, Baseball Hitting

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

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

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Motivational, Sports, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that ***** in the stands.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Mean, Umpires, Dirt, Greatest Baseball

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Sports, Lying, Baseball Managers, Greatest Baseball

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

- Pete Rose

source: Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

topic: Sports, Baseball, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Mlb

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

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Baseball, Long, Care, Baseball Games, Motivational Baseball

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Games, Giving, Greatest Baseball, Deserve The Best

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

- Yogi Berra

source: Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Funny, Motivational, Baseball, Baseball Coach, Baseball Team

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

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

- Honus Wagner

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

topic: Baseball, Greatest Baseball

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

- Rich Davis

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Long Distance Running, Great 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

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Confusing, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Running, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Baseball

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron

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

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

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

- Yogi Berra

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

topic: Funny, Death, Hilarious, Yankees Baseball, Stupid Funny

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

- Yogi Berra

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

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Yankees, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

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

- Yogi Berra

source: Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

- Yogi Berra

source: Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

topic: Beauty, Baseball, Yankees, Yankees Baseball, Funny Baseball

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.

- Yogi Berra

source: Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

topic: Baseball, Knows, Yankees Baseball, Famous Baseball, Baseball Managers

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

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 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

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

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Baseball, Reading, Men, World Series, Institute

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

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

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

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

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

- Bryant Gumbel

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

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Baseball, Swings, Missing, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

- Charley Lau

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball