Baseball Quotes

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is
Bob Feller

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.
Alvin Dark

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time

Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem
Saul Steinberg

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
Lawrence Ritter

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball
Pete Hamill

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot
Dick Gregory

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases
Rick Maksian

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
Carl Yastrzemski

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets

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 give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all
Earl Weaver

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve
Jaja Q.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball

I think a baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment
Lowell Cohn

It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on stuff they can hit
Sam McDowell

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base

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
Rogers Hornsby

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile
Tom Clark

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too
Roy Campanella







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