The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league…

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

— Chuck Tanner

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby

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

— Phil Linz

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

— Mickey Mantle

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 you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

— Vance Law

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

— George Carlin

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

— Philip K. Wrigley

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

— William Feather

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard.…

— Mickey Mantle

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

— W. P. Kinsella

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

— Yogi Berra

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's…

— Don Drysdale

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

— Red Smith

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

— Steve Hovley