-
Do not let the fear of striking out hold you back from playing the game.
Author:
Babe Ruth
-
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Author:
Robin Yount
-
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Author:
Carl Yastrzemski
-
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.
Author:
Carl Yastrzemski
-
But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Author:
Dave Winfield
-
For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Author:
Earl Wilson
-
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Author:
Earl Wilson
-
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Author:
Ted Williams
-
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.
Author:
Ted Williams
-
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Author:
Ted Williams
-
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Author:
Ted Williams
-
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Author:
Robin Williams
-
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Author:
Robin Williams
-
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
Author:
Eric Williams
-
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
Author:
George Will
-
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Author:
Walt Whitman
-
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
-
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Author:
Earl Weaver
-
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Author:
Earl Weaver
-
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Author:
Earl Weaver
-
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Author:
Muddy Waters
-
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Author:
Fay Vincent
-
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Author:
Fay Vincent
-
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Author:
Fay Vincent
-
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Author:
Fay Vincent
-
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Author:
Bill Veeck
-
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.
Author:
Bill Veeck
-
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Author:
Bill Veeck
-
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
-
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Author:
Bob Uecker
-
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Author:
Bob Uecker
-
A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Author:
Peter Ueberroth
-
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Author:
Peter Ueberroth
-
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Author:
Peter Tork
-
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
Author:
John Thorn
-
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
Author:
John Thorn
-
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
Author:
John Thorn
-
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
Author:
John Thorn
-
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
Author:
John Thorn
-
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
Author:
John Thorn
-
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
Author:
John Thorn
-
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
Author:
John Thorn
-
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
Author:
Bobby Thomson
-
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Author:
Bill Terry
-
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
Author:
Bill Terry
-
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.
Author:
Chuck Tanner
-
If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
Author:
Chuck Tanner
-
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
Author:
Ryan Sypek
-
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Author:
Ichiro Suzuki
-
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
Author:
Ichiro Suzuki
-
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Author:
Martha Stewart
-
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
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.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Author:
Casey Stengel
-
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
-
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
-
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
-
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Author:
Leigh Steinberg
-
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
Author:
Willie Stargell
-
Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
Author:
Willie Stargell
-
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Author:
Willie Stargell
-
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
-
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
Author:
Tris Speaker
-
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
Author:
Tris Speaker
-
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
Author:
Al Spalding
-
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Author:
Al Spalding
-
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
Author:
Al Spalding
-
Baseball is a man maker.
Author:
Al Spalding
-
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
-
I always get very calm with baseball.
Author:
Paul Simon
-
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
-
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Author:
George Shaw
-
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
-
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
-
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
-
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
Author:
Bud Selig
-
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
Author:
Bud Selig
-
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Author:
Tom Seaver
-
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.
Author:
Tom Seaver
-
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Author:
Mike Schmidt
-
Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Author:
Susan Sarandon
-
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.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
-
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
-
In baseball, there's always the next day.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
-
Baseball wasn't easy for me.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
-
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
-
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
-
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.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
-
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
-
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Author:
Babe Ruth
-
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Author:
Babe Ruth
-
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Author:
Babe Ruth
-
I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
Author:
Kurt Russell
-
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.
Author:
Pete Rose
-
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Author:
Pete Rose
-
Never bet on baseball.
Author:
Pete Rose
-
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Author:
Pete Rose
-
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
-
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
-
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Author:
Frank Robinson
-
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.
Author:
Brooks Robinson
-
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
Author:
Brooks Robinson
-
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.
Author:
Robin Roberts
-
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Author:
Branch Rickey
-
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
Author:
Branch Rickey
-
Baseball is a game of inches.
Author:
Branch Rickey
-
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Author:
Branch Rickey
-
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
Author:
Claudio Reyna
-
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
Author:
Pee Reese
-
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Author:
Harry Reasoner
-
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
Author:
Richard Pound
-
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Author:
Mike Piazza
-
I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
Author:
Mike Piazza
-
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
Author:
Gaylord Perry
-
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
Author:
Gaylord Perry
-
Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
Author:
Frank Perdue
-
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Author:
Gabe Paul
-
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.
Author:
Trey Parker
-
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
-
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
Author:
Rafael Palmeiro
-
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Author:
Satchel Paige
-
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
-
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
Author:
Sadaharu Oh
-
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
Author:
Paul O'Grady
-
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Author:
Conan O'Brien
-
People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not.
Author:
Hideo Nomo
-
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
Author:
Parminder Nagra
-
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.
Author:
James Murray
-
Baseball is a team game.
Author:
Eddie Murray
-
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Author:
Eddie Murray
-
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Author:
Eddie Murray
-
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
Author:
Marion Motley
-
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
Author:
Shemar Moore
-
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
Author:
Cleo Moore
-
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
Author:
Jay Mohr
-
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
Author:
Jay Mohr
-
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
Author:
Matthew Modine
-
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
Author:
Matthew Modine
-
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Author:
H. Mencken
-
I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Author:
Mark McGwire
-
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Author:
Mark McGwire
-
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
Author:
Mark McGwire
-
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Author:
Mary McGrory
-
There is but one game and that game is baseball.
Author:
John McGraw
-
I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
-
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
Author:
Brian McBride
-
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
Author:
Willie Mays
-
Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
Author:
Gene Mauch
-
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
-
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
-
I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
Author:
Pedro Martinez
-
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
Author:
Billy Martin
-
What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
Author:
Billy Martin
-
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
Author:
Penny Marshall
-
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Author:
Roger Maris
-
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
-
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
-
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
-
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
Author:
John Malkovich
-
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Author:
Sydney Madwed
-
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Author:
Melvin Maddocks
-
No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
Author:
Connie Mack
-
I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
Author:
Matt Long
-
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
Author:
Jeremy London
-
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.
Author:
Bernie Lincicome
-
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
Author:
Robert Lifton
-
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
Author:
Michael Lewis
-
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Author:
John Leonard
-
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Author:
Bob Lemon
-
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
Author:
Bill Lee
-
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Author:
Bill Lee
-
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Author:
Bill Lee
-
There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Author:
Tommy Lasorda
-
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Author:
Tommy Lasorda
-
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
-
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
Author:
Sandy Koufax
-
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Author:
Sandy Koufax
-
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
Author:
Bill Klem
-
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
Author:
Ralph Kiner
-
It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
Author:
Harmon Killebrew
-
Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
Author:
Harmon Killebrew
-
Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
Author:
Bob Kerrey
-
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Author:
Roger Kahn
-
It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
Author:
Rafer Johnson
-
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
Author:
Nick Johnson
-
John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Author:
Judy Johnson
-
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
Author:
Ferguson Jenkins
-
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
-
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
-
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
Author:
Bill James
-
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
Author:
Bill James
-
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
Author:
Shoeless Jackson
-
I am the best in baseball.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
-
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
-
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
-
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
-
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
Author:
Bo Jackson
-
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
Author:
Eric Idle
-
Baseball has all the money.
Author:
Brett Hull
-
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.
Author:
Rogers Hornsby
-
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
Author:
John Hooker
-
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Author:
Martina Hingis
-
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
Author:
Tom Hicks
-
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Author:
Whitey Herzog
-
The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
Author:
George Herman
-
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
Author:
George Herman
-
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
Author:
Rickey Henderson
-
Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
Author:
Eric Heiden
-
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
-
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
-
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
-
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
Author:
Ken Harrelson
-
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
-
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
Author:
Buddy Guy
-
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
Author:
Burleigh Grimes
-
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
Author:
Rachel Griffiths
-
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Author:
Bob Greene
-
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids."
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
-
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
Author:
A. Giamatti
-
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Author:
A. Giamatti
-
I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
-
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
-
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Author:
Lou Gehrig
-
I love the game of baseball.
Author:
Nomar Garciaparra
-
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Author:
Joe Garagiola
-
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Author:
Joe Garagiola
-
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Author:
Joe Garagiola
-
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
Author:
Joe Garagiola
-
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.
Author:
Paul Gallico
-
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Author:
Robert Frost
-
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
Author:
Jonathan Frakes
-
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
Author:
Jim Fowler
-
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Author:
Whitey Ford
-
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
Author:
Gerald Ford
-
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Author:
Curt Flood
-
Baseball regards us as sheep.
Author:
Curt Flood
-
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Author:
Curt Flood
-
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
Author:
Curt Flood
-
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Author:
Curt Flood
-
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
-
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Author:
Bob Feller
-
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
Author:
Jimmy Fallon
-
If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
Author:
Ron Fairly
-
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Author:
Jim Evans
-
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Author:
Jim Evans
-
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Author:
Leo Durocher
-
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Author:
Leo Durocher
-
Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.
Author:
Larry Doby
-
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Author:
Joe DiMaggio
-
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
-
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
Author:
Dizzy Dean
-
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.
Author:
Alvin Dark
-
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Author:
Alvin Dark
-
We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.
Author:
Johnny Damon
-
I don't know anything about baseball.
Author:
Sean Connery
-
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Author:
Ty Cobb
-
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Author:
Ty Cobb
-
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Author:
Ty Cobb
-
I was born to play baseball.
Author:
Roberto Clemente
-
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Author:
Roberto Clemente
-
Baseball has been very good to me.
Author:
Roberto Clemente
-
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
Author:
Roger Clemens
-
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
Author:
Roger Clemens
-
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Author:
Steven Chu
-
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
Author:
Ben Chandler
-
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Author:
Bruce Catton
-
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
Author:
Harry Caray
-
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
Author:
Roy Campanella
-
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
Author:
Ken Caminiti
-
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?
Author:
Miguel Cabrera
-
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
Author:
James Caan
-
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Author:
Jim Bunning
-
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
-
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Author:
Jack Buck
-
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Author:
Garth Brooks
-
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Author:
Garth Brooks
