Top 100 Quotes About Baseball
#1. We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.
Lou Piniella
#2. Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.
Ashley Monroe
#3. Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim
but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Dan Gable
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
Tommy Lasorda
#7. I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.
Hideki Matsui
#8. In baseball, you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
#9. I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
Joey Lawrence
#10. I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.
Rickey Henderson
#11. I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
Natalie Cole
#12. 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
#13. Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.
Bronson Arroyo
#14. Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.
Dennis Vickers
#16. Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
Denis Leary
#17. I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
Joe Tinker
#18. Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#19. It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
Art Rust Jr.
#20. I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory - that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.
Bowie Kuhn
#21. In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
Jane Leavy
#22. Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.
Mary Blakely
#23. Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.
Jeremy Bonderman
#24. Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.
Tom Hanks
#25. I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.
Torii Hunter
#26. Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.
Ernest Kurtz
#27. Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton
#28. I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
#29. I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
Barry Goldwater
#30. Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.
Hank Aaron
#31. I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
Hank Aaron
#32. It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
Miguel Cabrera
#33. I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.
Robbie Lawler
#34. New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.
Dick Williams
#35. For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.
Mariah Nelson
#36. Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Branch Rickey
#38. 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
#39. If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!
Billy Graham
#40. It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
Ken Caminiti
#41. I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Scott Hamilton
#42. I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
Bryan Cranston
#43. Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?
Darryl Strawberry
#44. A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
Bill Dickey
#45. There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.
Gerald Early
#46. Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
Herbert Hoover
#47. I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
W.P. Kinsella
#48. Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.
George Vecsey
#49. Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.
Mardy Grothe
#50. Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Bill Terry
#51. Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
Christopher Titus
#52. If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.
Tom Seaver
#54. I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Bryce Harper
#55. All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#56. Hi, I'm Justin." Then, unable to help myself, I shot Peyton a sly grin and added," Or, as someone people like to call me, "Baseball Stud.
Rachel Harris
#57. Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.
Stephen Graham Jones
#58. Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.
George H. W. Bush
#59. (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
John Irving
#60. You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
Eli Roth
#61. I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
Jerry Ferrara
#62. You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
Drew Bledsoe
#63. There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
Bill Vaughan
#64. If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail.
Jeff Kent
#65. I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
Bryce Harper
#66. He was also a terrific baseball player. That's what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#67. Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
Daniel Okrent
#68. I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.
Allan Ray
#69. I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
#70. And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call, he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.
Sarah Darer Littman
#71. I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.
Robert Redford
#72. Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.
Steve Busby
#73. I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
Pablo Francisco
#74. If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Ernie Harwell
#75. The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.
Luis Tiant
#76. He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.
Liza Minnelli
#77. The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt
#78. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.
Peter Jacobsen
#79. Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
Deborah Wiles
#80. I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
Barry Bonds
#81. Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.
Marcus Giles
#82. Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.
Stephen King
#83. You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
Roy Campanella
#84. The National League is baseball to me.
Kerry Wood
#85. It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.
Joe Mauer
#86. Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?
Ron Darling
#87. Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.
Pedro Martinez
#88. Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
Russell Wilson
#89. All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.
Rafael Soriano
#90. The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail
#91. It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.
Barry Bonds
#92. Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
Jimmy Connors
#93. I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.
Bryce Harper
#94. Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Frank Robinson
#95. Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.
Steve Garvey
#96. Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.
Tommy Lasorda
#97. Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#98. Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
Ernest Hemingway,
#99. Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
Robert Moog
#100. I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.
Ty Simpkins
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