Baseball Quotes

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~
John Leonard

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words
Ernie Harwell

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made
Cy Young

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs
Harry Caray

It actually giggles at you as it goes by
Rick Monday

A knuckleball is a curve ball that doesn't give a damn
Jimmy Cannon

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything
Toby Harrah

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback
Steve Hovley

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined
Paul Blair

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax
Mike Royko

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack
Adam Morrow

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport
Philip Wrigley

Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires."
Robert S. Wieder

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart
Tim McCarver

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round
Gaylord Perry

Baseball is dull only to dull minds
Red Barber

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball
Sandy Koufax







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