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
Casey Stengel
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror
George Carlin
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
Bill Veeck
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
Earl Wilson
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word
Brooks Robinson
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success
Sparky Anderson
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution
Hank Aaron
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts
Tommy Lasorda
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power
Leo Durocher
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can
Willie Stargell
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery
Ty Cobb
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it
Ty Cobb