Baseball Game Sayings

#1. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

Carl Crawford

#2. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada

#3. Baseball is our national game.

Calvin Coolidge

#4. Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners.

Jim Bouton

#5. I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Stan Musial

#6. I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.

Doug Harvey

#7. God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

Lance Berkman

#8. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson

#9. 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

#10. I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

Pete Rose

#11. When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

Roberto Alomar

#12. Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

Juliana Hatfield

#13. was like he'd lost a baseball game, his dog, and his last hundred bucks in the same day.

Annabeth Albert

#14. Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

Yogi Berra

#15. The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson

#16. Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.

Larry MacPhail

#17. Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

Jascha Heifetz

#18. I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

David Wright

#19. I had a super close-up view of those incredible pants baseball players wore - truly, those pants were the real reason why a large portion of women even bothered to watch the game.

S.C. Stephens

#20. When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#21. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Alvin Dark

#22. I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

John Lee Hooker

#23. No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Paul Gallico

#24. Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Rod Kanehl

#25. There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It's not for better parking. It's not for extra time to find our seats. It's not so we'll have time to down an extra hot dog, heavy on the mustard, prior to the first pitch. It's called BP.

Tucker Elliot

#26. You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Lou Brock

#27. I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

Woody Allen

#28. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#29. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.

JohnA Passaro

#30. England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

Robert Benchley

#31. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

George Herman

#32. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.

Michael Buffalo Smith

#33. I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

Rickey Henderson

#34. Baseball is really two sports
the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Thomas Boswell

#35. I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

Pete Rose

#36. Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Jerry Coleman

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

Walt Whitman

#38. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.

Lance Berkman

#39. When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it.

Anne Tyler

#40. I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.

Tony La Russa

#41. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Jack Buck

#42. Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life's work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

#43. I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Jon Lovitz

#44. I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

Richard M. Nixon

#45. They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

George Mikes

#46. I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Carrie Underwood

#47. Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

#48. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Ernie Harwell

#49. I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

Vin Scully

#50. Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Edna Ferber

#51. Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

David Wright

#52. It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

Rickey Henderson

#53. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

Derek Jeter

#54. Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller

#55. There is but one game and that game is baseball.

John McGraw

#56. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Bryce Harper

#57. Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long.

Tucker Elliot

#58. Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Don Mattingly

#59. Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

John Thorn

#60. In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

Mickey Mantle

#61. Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

Alyssa Milano

#62. What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.

Dan Shaughnessy

#63. Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Donald Hall

#64. If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

#65. Skip Caray was my favorite announcer as I grew up listening to the Braves on TBS and on the radio. One night, listening to a game that was headed into extra-innings, the broadcast was just breaking away to commercial when Skip said, 'Free baseball in Atlanta!' One of the best lines I've ever heard.

Tucker Elliot

#66. I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

Eddie Murray

#67. Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.

Kenneth Turan

#68. One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Robert Benchley

#69. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#70. The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about

Cal Ripken, Sr.

#71. Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Edward Abbey

#72. Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Thomas Boswell

#73. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

Roger Clemens

#74. It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

W.P. Kinsella

#75. I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.

Mark McGwire

#76. When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

Willie Stargell

#77. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#78. Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

James Patrick Murray

#79. So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

Leigh Steinberg

#80. 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

#81. I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

Deacon Jones

#82. Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

Mary McGrory

#83. If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

Rickey Henderson

#84. Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.

Mick Cochrane

#85. Baseball is a game of inches.

Branch Rickey

#86. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#87. There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

Alvin Dark

#88. I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

Casey Stengel

#89. It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

Buddy Bell

#90. There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

#91. I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Hank Aaron

#92. I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

Terry Bradshaw

#93. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

Robert Lipsyte

#94. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

Collette West

#95. It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

Bill Vaughn

#96. Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Stephen Rodrick

#97. Bond went back to room 325 and poured himself two fingers of bourbon from his bottle and switched on the television while he waited for Delmont. He watched a game of baseball uncomprehendingly - the Senators versus the Royals - thinking that it made cricket seem exciting.

William Boyd

#98. Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

Thomas Boswell

#99. I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

#100. (Baseball's a dull game, really; that's the reason that it is so good. We do not love the game so much as we love the sprawl and drowse and shirt-sleeved apathy of it.)

Thomas Wolfe