Great baseball Quotes

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

— Satchel Paige

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

— Rogers Hornsby

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

— Watts Humphrey

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

— Lou Gehrig

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

— Woodie Held

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

— Willie Mays

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

— Yogi Berra

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

— Rich Davis

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell…

— Leo Durocher

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers'…

— Magic Johnson

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

— Red Smith

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

— Charley Lau

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

— Debra Messing

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

— Willie Stargell

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the…

— Lou Gehrig

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me…

— Tom Guiry

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.…

— Mickey Mantle

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Anonymous

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him…

— Yogi Berra

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

— James Earl Jones

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,…

— Ron Shelton

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

— Kevin Costner

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

— Bryant Gumbel

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

— Chuck Tanner

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

— Reggie Jackson

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

— Lewis Carroll

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

— Ernie Harwell

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

— Kevin Costner

I didn't really say everything I said.

— Yogi Berra

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

— Jim Jarmusch

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

— Mickey Mantle

I really didn't say everything I said.

— Yogi Berra

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

— Yogi Berra

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.

— Yogi Berra

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

— Donovan Mitchell

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

— Joe Schultz