Baseball Spring Quotes

#1. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

#2. If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

Sam Rutigliano

#3. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Sandy Koufax

#4. Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Thomas Boswell

#5. Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Marvin Olasky

#6. 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

#7. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

George Carlin

#8. These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

Dave Winfield

#9. I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Steve Earle

#10. Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

Jerry Izenberg

#11. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Roger Kahn