Baseball Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
Norm Cash
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
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
You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Albert Einstein
If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.
Sam Rutigliano
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
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
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
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
Thomas Boswell
Baseball is the belly of society. Straighten out baseball and you’ll straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Lee
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey Stengel
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
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
Bill Veeck
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
Robert S. Wieder
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
Steve Busby
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
Robert Benchley
Baseball hasn’t been the national pastime for many years now – no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Bob Greene
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don’t any of these guys ever go fishing?
Dave Shiflett
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank Aaron
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
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
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off… the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Rick Maksian
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
Philip Wrigley
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.
Anonymous
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
Bill Veeck
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Steve Hovley
A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves.
Brendan Francis
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