Art Quote by Sam Dunn

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal…

— Ichiro Suzuki

There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people,…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.

— Ernest Kurtz

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

— Ted Williams

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

— Clayton Kershaw

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of…

— Goose Gossage

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is…

— Don Yaeger

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on…

— Jed S. Rakoff

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time…

— Janet Yellen

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven…

— Jessica Mendoza

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset…

— Mark Teixeira

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of…

— Roger Angell