Top 100 Best Baseball Quotes
#1. It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
George Vecsey
#2. I remember you explaining the bases to me in this dugout. The best baseball conversation we ever had."
I lean forward and claps my hands together. "Maybe you missed part of the conversation, because I wasn't explaining baseball."
... "I know, but I still enjoyed the demonstration.
Katie McGarry
#3. I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.
Giancarlo Stanton
#4. Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
Doug Harvey
#5. I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
#6. I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
Jose Canseco
#7. I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."
Geena Davis
#8. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#9. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Babe Ruth
#10. It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
Tommy Lasorda
#11. Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
George Steinbrenner
#12. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#13. I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
Curt Schilling
#14. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.
Terry Vaughn
#15. God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
#16. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
Ted Williams
#17. I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
Eric Davis
#18. I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball
Brady Anderson
#19. Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.
Bryce Harper
#20. Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
Thomas Boswell
#21. If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.
Daniel Okrent
#22. Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.
George Vecsey
#23. The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
Charles Kuralt
#24. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
Rickey Henderson
#25. You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.
David Letterman
#26. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose
#27. Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez
#28. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#29. That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.
Johnny Bench
#30. [On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.
Yvonne Zipter
#31. Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
Ron Darling
#32. Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.
Roger Angell
#33. I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Mark McGwire
#34. READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.
Judith Viorst
#35. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.
Pete Rose
#36. Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#38. That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
Topher Grace
#39. Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
Joe Namath
#40. The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Tommy Lasorda
#41. Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.
Cindy Crawford
#42. 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
#43. In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.
Ichiro Suzuki
#44. For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.
Donald Hall
#46. I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
Pablo Francisco
#47. The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.
Luis Tiant
#48. There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Neville Cardus
#49. I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
Jim Courier
#50. The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
Thomas Boswell
#51. If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze.
Ilona Andrews
#52. Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick
#53. Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.
Ford Frick
#54. My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#55. 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
#56. People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.
Albert Pujols
#57. The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell
#58. I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to
the beauty of playing baseball.
George W. Bush
#59. I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
Albert Belle
#60. I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.
Lou Piniella
#61. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.
Bert Blyleven
#62. All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
Tobin Bell
#63. Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.
Sam Dunn
#64. I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
Ray Dandridge
#65. 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
#66. The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.
Manny Trillo
#67. Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
Mickey Mantle
#68. 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
#69. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
Mickey Mantle
#70. The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Tom Seaver
#71. I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.
Kurt Fuller
#72. When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.
Johan Santana
#73. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.
Clark Griffith
#74. Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
Sparky Anderson
#75. Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show ... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!
John J. Kiernan
#76. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#77. The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.
Tucker Elliot
#78. As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle
#79. You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
Tommy Lasorda
#80. The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.
Stephen King
#82. Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
Tris Speaker
#83. The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job ... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#84. One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.
Lefty Gomez
#85. Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.
Michael Chabon
#86. It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.
Ryan Zimmerman
#88. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.
Jason Giambi
#89. I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
Dave Winfield
#90. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Billy Beane
#91. The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day
Graig Nettles
#92. Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
Harold S. Kushner
#93. When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
Evel Knievel
#95. Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.
Jason Bay
#97. I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
#98. No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
Ryne Sandberg
#99. Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.
Bryce Harper
#100. Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George Will
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