In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
—Unknown
It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st American President
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated
—Unknown
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
Winners make goals, losers make excuses
—Unknown
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 (1927–2021) American Baseball Player, Coach
A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
—Joe DiMaggio (1914–99) American Baseball Player
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
—Bill Veeck (1914–86) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Books Writer, Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
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 goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
—Earl Weaver (1930–2013) American Baseball Player, Manager
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
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 (1944–2020) American Baseball Player
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 (1914–86) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
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
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
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
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 (1919–72) American Baseball Player
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
—Bill Veeck (1914–86) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
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
—George Will (b.1941) American Columnist, Journalist, Writer
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
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 (1914–99) American Baseball Player
A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves
—Brendan Behan (1923–64) Irish Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
—Unknown
Baseball wrong – man with four balls cannot walk
—Indian Proverb
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
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
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
Leave a Reply