There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. — Steve Hovley Copy Share Image
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… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson Copy Share Image
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux Copy Share Image
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. — Charley Lau Copy Share Image
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
