Do you like baseball? It’s a fantastic game, is not it, well, with playing, watching and having fun, add to your list the best baseball quotes ever.
Lots of quotations, sayings and pictures in one place, such as a baseball field (joke). It’s really wonderful for you and for fans of that game all over the Earth, USA, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Greece, India Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palau, Philippines, Puerto Rico Spain, United Kingdom, Venezuela.
Inspirational Baseball Quotes and Saying Images
You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~ Duke Snider – 1975
You know it’s summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~ Bob Sarlette
You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. ~ Leo Durocher – in New York Times, 16 May 1965
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
When you’re in a slump, it’s almost as if you look out at the field and it’s one big glove. ~ Vance Law
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~ Woody Allen
When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.” ~ Willie Stargell – 1981
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~ Tim McCarver – who caught all of Steve Carlton’s games, 1977
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!… Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils…. Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober. ~ Bill Veeck – The Hustler’s Handbook
What are we at the park for except to win? I’d trip my mother. I’d help her up, brusher her off, tell her I’m sorry. But mother don’t make it to third. ~ Leo Durocher
Well, boys, it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~ Joe Schultz – 1969
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. ~ Jerry Izenberg
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. ~ Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons
To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ~ Geoffrey Boycott – 1989, how a cricket batsman feels when facing a fast bowler
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. ~ Steve Hovley – 1969
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don’t think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~ John Fowles
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~ Author Unknown
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. ~ Neville Cardus – A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981, referring to cricket
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~ Charlie Lau – 1982
The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. ~ Lawrence Ritter
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~ Bill Veeck
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 – on Montreal
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 – quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985
The great thing about baseball is that there’s a crisis every day. ~ Gabe Paul
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws. ~ Rick Wise – 1974
The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~ Bob Uecker
That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~ Bill Veeck – 1976
That’s baseball, and it’s my game. Y’ know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave ’em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It’s good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of ’em. ~ Humphrey Bogart
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging. ~ Duke Snider
Strikeouts are boring — besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~ From the movie Bull Durham
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~ Barry Switzer
Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound. ~ Jim Murray – on Sandy Koufax
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. ~ Adam Morrow – quoted in Bill Simmons, “Letters from the Nation,” 20 October 2003
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 – quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990
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 – on his 1,081 strikeouts
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Frederick B. Wilcox
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~ Robert Frost
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made. ~ Cy Young
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. ~ Robert Benchley
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~ Joe Garagiola
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
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~ Paul Gallico
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. ~ Mickey Mantle
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~ Thomas Boswell – in Inside Sports
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~ Greg – age 8
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
It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~ Denis Norden
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted. ~ Bill Veeck – The Hustler’s Handbook
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 – in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989
It ain’t nothin’ till I call it. ~ Bill Klem – umpire
It actually giggles at you as it goes by. ~ Rick Monday – on Phil Niekro’s knuckleball, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1 August 1983
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. ~ Neville Cardus – Cardus on the Ashes, 1989
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base. ~ Dave Barry
If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it. ~ Dick Allen – on artificial turf, 1970
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. ~ Casey Stengel – 1967
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. ~ Author Unknown
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
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
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~ Rogers Hornsby
I don’t love baseball. I don’t love most of today’s players. I don’t love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~ Stan Isaacs – “Diamond-Studded Memories,” Newsday, 9 April 1990
I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all. ~ Bob Lemon – 1977
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
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ~ Warren Spahn
Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~ Mike Royko – 1981
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
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 – 1970
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
Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~ Pete Hamill
Don’t park in the spaces marked, “Reserved for Umpires.” ~ John McSherry
Don’t forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~ Woodie Held
Confucius say: “Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk.” ~ Author Unknown
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
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
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 – in Washington Post, 8 July 1974
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~ Bob Lemon
Baseball isn’t a business, it’s more like a disease. ~ Walter F. O’Malley
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
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
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball. ~ Ken Harrelson – Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~ George Carlin – Brain Droppings, 1997
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
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
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~ Author Unknown
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~ Phil Linz
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~ John Leonard – New York Times, 2 November 1975
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~ Nomar Garciaparra
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It’s like the old days revived. We’re loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We’re the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world…. the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~ Paul Blair – quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~ Humphrey Bogart
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~ M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976
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
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~ Earl Wilson
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 – quoted in New York Times, 30 April 1961
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[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o’clock in the afternoon for an eight o’clock game. It’s so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren’t there. ~ Ray Miller
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[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn’t give a damn. ~ Jimmy Cannon