Baseball Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti

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