Baseball Quotes

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television
Bob Greene

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you

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

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

It ain't over till it's over.

You observe a lot by watching.

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.

That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.

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.

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.

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
Cy Young

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

Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years
Cy Young

You can't think and hit at the same time

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it
Ted Williams

Most one-run games are lost, not won
Gene Mauch

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends

Nobody ever said, "Work ball!" They say, "Play ball!" To me, that means having fun
Willie Stargell







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