Baseball Quotes

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

Satchel Paige

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common

Satchel Paige

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

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

Roger Angell

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

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing.... I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Mike Schmidt

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Lefty Gomez

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

Cy Young

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

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

Wade Boggs

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage someday. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does

Leonard Koppett

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing

Warren Spahn

The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?

Johnny Mize