Famous Baseball Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
-
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
— Yogi Berra
-
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I…
— Yogi Berra
-
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
— Ty Cobb
-
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow…
— Hank Aaron
-
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed…
— Hank Aaron
-
It ain't nothing till I call it.
— Bill Klem
-
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
— Nolan Ryan
-
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out…
— Bill Lee
-
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
— Whitey Herzog
-
What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except…
— Rick Monday
-
You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.
— Dale Berra
-
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
-
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can…
— Jack Buck
-
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
— Al Stump
-
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
— Richie Ashburn
-
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave
— Durwood Merrill
-
Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
— Stan Coveleski
-
Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies
— Gabby Hartnett
-
The one constant in life is baseball
— James Earl Jones
-
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Who Wrote These Famous Baseball Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 40 Famous Baseball Quotes, led by these top contributors: