Top 100 Quotes About Baseball
#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. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.
Sammy Sosa
#3. I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.
Frank Thomas
#4. The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
Ty Cobb
#5. Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Whitey Herzog
#6. Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.
George Vecsey
#7. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Eric Gagne
#8. I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat.
Kristen Bell
#9. Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
Louise Brown
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. (He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
Bob Costas
#13. Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.
Jim Bouton
#14. I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
Barry Bonds
#15. Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
Ne-Yo
#16. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
#17. Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.
Tommy Lasorda
#18. I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
Woody Allen
#19. When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
Sid Luckman
#21. We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
Jimmy Fallon
#22. Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners.
Jim Bouton
#23. When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.
Bubba Watson
#24. If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
Mickey Mantle
#25. Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.
Jerry Coleman
#26. Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it ... baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son.
Tim Russert
#27. How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Luke Scott
#29. Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.
Carl Yastrzemski
#30. I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
Ralph Kiner
#31. I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
Jennifer Garner
#32. I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.
Adam Dunn
#33. I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
Red Schoendienst
#34. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#35. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Jeff Jarvis
#36. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
Mark Teixeira
#37. Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.
Branch Rickey
#38. I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
#39. Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
Ty Cobb
#40. The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.
Frank Thomas
#41. Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.
Larry Doby
#42. In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.
Albert Pujols
#43. The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.
Tucker Elliot
#44. I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.
Stan Musial
#45. I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
Earl Weaver
#46. You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.
Rocky Colavito
#47. Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.
Collette West
#48. I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#49. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
John Medina
#50. I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Willie Stargell
#53. I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
Bill James
#55. There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.
Jared Leto
#56. 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
#57. After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Reggie Jackson
#58. If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
Jackie Robinson
#59. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
Robert Frost
#60. God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.
Lance Berkman
#61. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson
#62. Baseball freely admits that the sport
like civilized society
is crawling with bums.
Dan Gutman
#63. It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
Rick Monday
#64. 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
#66. The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
Jerry Coleman
#67. I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.
Jeremy Bonderman
#68. It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.
Jerry Coleman
#69. I'm not letting you leave this car
until we make it to second base. At least."
"Jess, you know how good I am at baseball, right?
Penny Reid
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
#73. Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.
Cheech Marin
#74. Wearing a baseball cap or sleeveless shirt in a white-tablecloth restaurant is rude and makes other diners upset, just like someone on a cellphone.
Danny Meyer
#75. I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
Pete Rose
#76. I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
Simon R. Green
#77. 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
#78. I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
W.P. Kinsella
#79. The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Sparky Anderson
#80. Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
Pat Williams
#81. I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Peter Lynch
#82. I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
Mae Whitman
#83. I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.
Bengie Molina
#84. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thomas Perez
#85. Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
#86. Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield
#87. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Mickey Mantle
#88. was like he'd lost a baseball game, his dog, and his last hundred bucks in the same day.
Annabeth Albert
#89. When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
Bobby Fischer
#90. Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
Jacob Ruppert
#91. As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.
Linda Sanchez
#92. Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
Mickey Mantle
#93. 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
#94. Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.
Yogi Berra
#95. Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.
Bill Bryson
#96. In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.
Waldemar Kaempffert
#97. The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
Ron Luciano
#98. Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.
Joe DiMaggio
#100. 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
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