Baseball Quotes

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

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

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game
Chuck Tanner

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square
Joe Schultz

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate
Duke Snider

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up
Bob Uecker

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
Dave Shiflett

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
Jimmy Piersal

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too
Greg

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something
Nolan Ryan

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens

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

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

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

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

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes
Bill Klem

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings







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