[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your…

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

— Bryant Gumbel

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

— Roy Campanella

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts,…

— Anonymous

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

— Babe Ruth

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…

— Mickey Mantle

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

— Willie Stargell

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan…

— Kevin Costner

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon.…

— Reggie Jackson

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a…

— James Earl Jones

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

— Yogi Berra

“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

— Babe Ruth

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

— Walter Johnson