Baseball Quotes

Winners make goals, losers make excuses

Unknown

When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake

Matt Williams

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball

Pete Rose

How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk though it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that

Ted Kluszewski

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Joe Torre

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

Will Rogers

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player, and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both

Anthony Standen

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken

Yogi Berra

When you play this game 20 years, go to bat 10,000 times, and get 3,000 hits, you know what that means? you've gone 0 for 7,000

Pete Rose

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Babe Ruth

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Michael Lewis

I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the brain of a one-cell animal. No. That would be your average career sportswriter -- and, more specifically, a full-time Baseball writer.

Hunter S. Thompson

And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history, Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

Mickey Mantle