The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a…

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

— Charles Bukowski

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep.…

— Michael Chabon

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

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

— Red Ruffing

If the players don't produce, and aren't in the position to be evaluated correctly, then a manager's job of winning or losing baseball games…

— John Smoltz

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in…

— Pete Hamill

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

— Chuck Tanner

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

— Yogi Berra

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

— Steve Hovley

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin,…

— Harlan Coben

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

— Herbert Hoover

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an…

— Michael Lewis

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have…

— Jacob deGrom

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and…

— Anonymous

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have…

— Anthony Holden