Baseball Quotes and Sayings

I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is a man maker.
Al Spalding

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Sandy Koufa

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”
Sandy Koufax

Confucius say: “Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk.”
Anonymous

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
Anonymous

The great thing about baseball is that there’s a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul

Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
Larry Anderson

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.
Ron Shelton

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!
Herbert H. Paper

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
Anonymous

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.
Thomas Boswell

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space — both physical and emotional — in which to define themselves.
John Eskow

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: “It’s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.
Bob Costas

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
Sharon Olds

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker’s responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
Mark Kramer

Baseball? It’s just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport, business - and sometimes even religion.
Ernie Harwell

Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.
Bill Klem

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

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
The Villains in Blue

You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher

I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
Bob Lemon

The clock doesn’t matter in baseball.
Herb Caen