Quote by Lori Wilde

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

— Charlie Gehringer

“On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one's happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar…

— Tom Swift

“But then again, living is a gamble. We all wind up and deliver our pitch, and what happens after that—strike three, home run, or…

— Dirk Hayhurst

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other…

— Jim Bouton

“If you're going to die at age thirty-five, professional sports is the best life ever. If you're going to die at eighty-five, it's the…

— Douglas Brunt

“We try to teach our players that baseball is just a game, this is not life or death; there’s a lot bigger things out…

— Brian Cain

“Annie Savoy: [narrating] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses…

— Bull Durham

“We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.”

— Chris Fabry

“Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Life is also a lot like baseball. It’s timeless, boring, and if you’re not paying attention, you could get hit in the face with…

— Fred Stoller

“Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.”

— Michael Pinball Clemons

“Players can go anywhere. They don’t remain in the same team. That’s life you know. One minute we’re doing this, then the next minute…

— Fiy Suri