Quotes About Baseball Games

#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. I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Jennifer Garner

#3. Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker

#4. 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

#5. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Earl Weaver

#6. When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Alex Gibney

#7. It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Vida Blue

#8. I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Matt Kemp

#9. Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

John F. Kennedy

#10. Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah
you have to stay away from the Padres.

James Siegel

#11. Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

W.P. Kinsella

#12. Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Cleo Moore

#13. Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Young Jeezy

#14. There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.

Willie Geist

#15. Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ...

Alice Duer Miller

#16. If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

Mackenzie Astin

#17. I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.

Daron Malakian

#18. I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

John Cullum

#19. Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

Dan Rather

#20. We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

Bengie Molina

#21. I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Juliana Hatfield

#22. 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

#23. Baseball is our national game.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Stan Musial

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

Lance Berkman

#26. 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

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

Yogi Berra

#28. Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

Jamie Moyer

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

David Wright

#30. They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

Casey Stengel

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

Rod Kanehl

#32. 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

#33. Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden

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

Rickey Henderson

#35. 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

#36. Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

Bill Lee

#37. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

#38. 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

#39. I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

Ernest Lanigan

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

Edna Ferber

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

Jonah Hill

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

Don Mattingly

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

Jay Leno

#49. If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

Patrick Whitesell

#50. 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.

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tom Glavine

#54. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

John Madden

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

Willie Stargell

#56. Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?

Ken Follett

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

Leigh Steinberg

#58. Mention in baseball's official record books, however, requires that catchers play a minimum of 156 games in a season,

Mark S. Halfon

#59. 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

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

Buddy Bell

#61. I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

David Price

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

#65. 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

#66. I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

#67. You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

Joaquin Andujar

#68. Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Bo Jackson

#69. Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.

Mark Teixeira

#70. My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.

Rafael Palmeiro

#71. Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#72. And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Parminder Nagra

#73. What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Pete Rose

#74. 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

#75. If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though that's a different proposition.

Carson Cistulli

#76. Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

W.P. Kinsella

#77. This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

#78. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Steven Chu

#79. I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

Jason Dohring

#80. The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Chuck Tanner

#81. The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

Joe Torre

#82. Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

Gene Logsdon

#83. Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

Henry A. Kissinger

#84. The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

Billy Beane

#85. I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

Babe Ruth

#86. I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

Chase Utley

#87. 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

#88. If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Derek Jeter

#89. There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.

Walter Dean Myers

#90. How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

Charley Pride

#91. He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Bob Costas

#92. The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

William Howard Taft

#93. I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

#94. What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

Roger Angell

#95. People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

Johnny Damon

#96. Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

Phil Linz

#97. That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.

John Grisham

#98. Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Gene Autry

#99. A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

E. Michael Burke

#100. It's very disappointing ... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

Harmon Killebrew