“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.” ― Roy Campanella
“There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.” – Leo Durocher
“No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.” – Connie Mack
“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.” – Yogi Berra
“I don’t want to be one of those great players who never made the Series.” – Ricky Henderson
“If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.” – Sammy Sosa
“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” ― Ted Willams
“The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It’s a mental war more than anything.” ― Alex Rodriguez
“Baseball is a man maker.” ― Al Spalding
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” ― Babe Ruth
“The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.” – Earl Weaver
“Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.” – Pete Rose
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” ― Ted Williams
“If a ballplayer is satisfied, he’s going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.” ― Nellie Fox
“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” ― Joe DiMaggio
“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
“You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.” ― Cal Ripken
“If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.” – Yogi Berra
“When you get up to the plate, nobody’s there to help you. You’ve got to do this on your own.” ― Ichiro Suzuki
“It’s baseball. You’ve got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.” ― Gordon Beckham
“You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.” ― Bob Feller
“No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.” ― Connie Mack
“Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” ― Frank Robinson
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” ― Babe Ruth
“With baseball, it’s simple. There’s no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label – full count, earned run, perfect game – and there’s a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There’s no room for confusion.” ― Jennifer E. Smith
“When I’m not hitting, I don’t hit nobody. But, when I’m hitting, I hit anybody.” ― Willie Mays
“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” ― Warren Spahn
“The story of the curveball is the story of the game itself. Some would say, of life itself.” ― Martin Quigley
“Practice perfect today, play like a champion tomorrow. ― Unknown
“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” ― Jim Bouton
“Baseball is a game of inches.” ― Branch Rickey
“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
“Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.” – Bill Klem
“If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.” ― Rickey Henderson
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” – Yogi Berra
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” – Yogi Berra
“No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.” – Casey Stengel
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” – Bob Feller
“You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.” – Roy Campanella
“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.” – Paul Auster
“Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.” – Pat Gillick
“I’m a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.” – Brooks Robinson
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” ― Leo Durocher
“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” ― Ted Willams
“Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.” – Cal Ripken, Jr.
“A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn’t going to say every day, ‘Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.” – Bill Dickey
“You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.” – Lou Brock
“There’s nothing to it. Baseball isn’t that tough to play.” – Red Schoendienst
“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
“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” ― Babe Ruth
“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short.” ― Al Lopez
“Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.” – Joe Torre
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.” ― Earl Wilson
“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.” – Carl Yastrzemski
“The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.” – Gabe Paul
“In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.” – Alvin Dark
“What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.” – Chuck Tanner
“My feeling is that when you’re managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.” – Robin Roberts
“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” – Casey Stengel
“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.” – Ted Williams
“One of the great things about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.” ― Gabe Paul
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”- Jimmy Dugan, A League Of Their Own
“Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.” – Juliana Hatfield
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.” – Nolan Ryan
“You never know what’s going to happen… And that’s the fun of it!! That’s what baseball’s all about!!” ― Keiichi Arawi
“Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.” – Leo Durocher
“In baseball, there’s always the next day.” – Ryne Sandberg
“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.” – Sparky Anderson
“The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It’s the only thing I know.” – Mickey Mantle
“Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.” ― David James Duncan
“Playing baseball for pay – home run. Teaching kids to play the game – priceless” ― Jack Perconte
“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.” – Curt Schilling
“When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I’m doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?” – Miguel Cabrera
“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.” – Lou Gehrig
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ― Babe Ruth
“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.” – Al Lopez
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” ― Yogi Berra
“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
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra
“This is a great thing that’s happening in baseball. We don’t know if it will ever happen again.” – Mark McGwire
“In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.” – Rickey Henderson
“There’s almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning.” ― Tucker Elliot
“In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.” ― Alvin Dark
“No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.” ― Casey Stengel
“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.” ― Chad Harbach
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ― Babe Ruth
“When we lost I couldn’t sleep at night. When we win I can’t sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better.” – Joe Torre
“My baseball team is called the I Ams. Just me and my clones on the roster. We’re devastating. Well, at least I am.” ― Jarod Kintz
“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
“If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.” ― Tucker Elliot
“I don’t rate them, I just hit them.” ― Willie Mays
“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.”- Mickey Mantle
“Remember kid, there’s heroes and there’s legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart kid and you can never go wrong.” – The Babe, The Sandlot
“Athletes are born winners, there not born losers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become successful in life.” ― Charles R. Sledge Jr.
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling bad or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” ― Hank Aaron
“They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.” ― Paul Auster
“I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.” ― Barry Lyga
“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
“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.” ― Thomas Boswell
“Baseball is ninety-percent mental and the other half is physical”. – Yogi Berra
“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.” – Derek Jeter
“Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.” – Ted Williams
“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and willing to accept constructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.” ― Willie Mays
“Find something you love and go after it with all of your heart.” ― Jim Abbott
“Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.” ― Reggie Jackson
“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
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”- Jackie Robinson
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.” ― Carl Yastrzemski
“Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can’t go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.” ― Bill Bryson
“If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.”- Ted Williams
“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” ― Casey Stengel
“Look to the moon when you swing, he instructed. That’s what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot.” ― Alessandra Torre
“Fans don’t boo nobodies.” – Reggie Jackson
“About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.” – Tommy Lasorda
“There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.” – Pete Rose
“You can’t steal second base and keep one foot on first.” – Reggie Jackson
“It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.” ― Roger Kahn
“Fenway is the essence of baseball.” – Tom Seaver
“Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.” ― Vernon D. Burns
“The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.” ― Bryant Gumbel
“A pitcher has to find out if a hitter is timid, and if he is, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.” ― Don Drysdale
“That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed — it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game” ― Jayson Stark
“You know, a lot of people say they didn’t want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.” ― Johnny Damon
“Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don’t have guys who throw it really well, you can’t compete for long.” ― Tucker Elliot
“Baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric – not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn’t storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing football.You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready.” ― Chad Harbach
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.” ― Hank Aaron
“Bad ballplayers make great managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.” – Earl Weaver
“I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.” – Bob Lemon
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.” – Leo Ernest Durocher
“A baseball manager is a necessary evil.” – George ‘Sparky’ Anderson
“The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball, whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.” ― Michael Chabon
“Baseball is a game of inches.” – Branch Rickey
“Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.” ― Joe Maddon
“I love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am.” – Ryne Sandberg
“There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.” – Jackie Robinson
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“Rub some dirt on it, you ain’t hurt.” ― Unknown
“I just want to play baseball.” – David Ortiz
“To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.” – Willie Stargell
“I didn’t understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.” – Ernie Banks
“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you’ve got both, you can play baseball.” – Pete Rose
“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.” – Mickey Mantle
“Baseball life is a tough life on the family.” – Nolan Ryan
“They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.” ― Fred McMane
“The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.” – Chuck Tanner
“Never save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.” – Leo Durocher
“The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.” ― Hank Aaron
“I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair. And that’s where I like to play.” ― Harlan Coben
“Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.” – Tommy Lasorda
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of a man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” ― Roger Kahn
“I really love the togetherness in baseball. That’s real true love.” – Billy Martin
“Close doesn’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” – Frank Robinson