Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
—Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American Baseball Legend
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
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
—Ted Williams (1918–2002) American Sportsperson
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
—Vince Lombardi (1913–70) American Football 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
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 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