When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a…

— Ty Cobb

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

— Anonymous

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

— Pete Rose

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

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Bill Veeck

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

— Charley Lau

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

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

— Joe Schultz

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

— Chuck Tanner

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

— Yogi Berra

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

— Red Smith

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

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby