Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
—Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics
—Unknown
You can’t think and hit at the same time
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
—Satchel Paige (1906–82) American Baseball Player
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
You can observe a lot by watching.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium
—Unknown
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
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
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
All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother’s funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin’s wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game
—Indian Proverb
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
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 (1918–2002) American Sportsperson
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
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
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
Traditional gag notice hung in offices and factories at a time period when all games were played during daylight hours
—Indian Proverb
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
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
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 (1890–1975) 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
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
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to first! Then your body says who me?
—Joe DiMaggio (1914–99) American Baseball Player
In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
—Unknown
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
—Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football Coach
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated
—Unknown
You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game—it, and high taxes
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
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.
—Indian Proverb