It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans
—George Will (b.1941) American Columnist, Journalist, Writer
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
—Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American Baseball Legend
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours
—Indian Proverb
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series
—Tommy Lasorda (1927–2021) American Baseball Player, Coach
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 (1934–2021) American Baseball Player
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
—Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson
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 (1918–2002) American Sportsperson
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated
—Unknown
If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s going to stop them.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics
—Unknown
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
—Jacques Barzun (b.1907) French-born American Historian, Philosophers
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
—Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson
The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
—Hank Aaron (1934–2021) American Baseball Player
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 (1914–86) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
Pitch within yourself
—Tom Seaver (1944–2020) American Baseball Player
A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate Who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
—Anonymous
That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.
—Bill Veeck (1914–86) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Baseball is what gets inside you, it lights you up, its supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The HARD is what makes it great
—Indian Proverb