Motivational Baseball Quotes:

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

- William Arthur Ward

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

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

- Derek Jeter

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Success, Sports Leadership, Inspirational Winning

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

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

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

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

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

- Vince Lombardi

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

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

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

- Joe Namath

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

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

- Joe Paterno

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

- John Wooden

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Notre Dame, Inspirational Football

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

- Warren Spahn

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

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

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

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

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

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

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

- Tommy Lasorda

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Baseball, Sports Leadership

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

- Lou Brock

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

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

- Yogi Berra

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Inspirational, Success, Tattoo, Baseball Games, Softball Team

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character, Sports Coaching, Sports Leadership

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

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

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

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

- Tommy Lasorda

source: Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

topic: Success, Congratulations, Failure, Motivational Baseball

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Success, Baseball, Crazy, Softball Team, Inspirational Baseball

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

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

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

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Baseball, Knocked Down, Clear, Motivational Baseball

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball, Sports Team, Motivational Baseball

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Practice, Dangerous, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

- Joe DiMaggio

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

topic: Family, Sports, Player, Motivational Baseball, Rich Family

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

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

- Don Drysdale

topic: Baseball, Pitcher, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball, Mlb

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

- Charley Lau

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

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

- Ty Cobb

source: Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Baseball, Fun, Struggle, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Games, Motivational Baseball, Great Baseball, Mlb

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

- Walt Whitman

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

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

- Joe Schultz

topic: Baseball, Boys, Squares, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

- Dean Smith

topic: Inspiring, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

- Chuck Tanner

topic: Baseball, Winning, Losing, Baseball Games, Motivational Baseball

How can you think and hit at the same time?

- Yogi Berra

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