Baseball Quotes

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Sandy Koufax

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

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

Jaja Q.

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them

Johnny Vander Meer

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way

Babe Ruth

Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals

Dick Williams

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage

Pete Rose

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching

Ferguson Jenkins

Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin's half pair of scissors - ineffectual

Moe Berg

Players who commit errors need reassurance from the pitcher, who must harbor no grudges.

Roger Craig

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

Pete Rose

The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series

Tommy Lasorda

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too

Branch Rickey

Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way

Whitey Herzog

It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable

Joe Garagiola

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be in baseball and in life

Pete Rose

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation

Leroy Robert

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us

Walt Whitman

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

Herbert Hoover

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

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose: it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance-thrown hard and with precision

Roger Angell

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run

Branch Rickey

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

Herb Caen

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