Baseball Quotes and Sayings

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
Jim Murray

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Ken Harrelson

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon. That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you.
Reggie Jackson

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.
Chuck Tanner

A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio

Don’t forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Woodie Held

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
Bill Veeck

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”
Tom Seaver

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
Cy Young

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
Bob Uecker

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

You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
Duke Snider

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

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

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

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
Anonymous

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Jackie Robinson

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.
Andre Dawson

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can’t think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
Willie Stargell

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.
William C. Feather

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith

It ain’t nothin’ till I call it.
Bill Klem

Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: “God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy’s paycheck by fifteen to forty percent.”
Waite Hoyt

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn