Baseball Quotes

Our Collection of the best baseball quotes:

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
~Rogers Hornsby

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
~Jim Bouton

That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.
~Bill Veeck

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
~Tom Clark

You observe a lot by watching.
~Yogi Berra

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.
~Dave Barry

It ain’t over till it’s over.
~Yogi Berra

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

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
~Hank Aaron

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
~Humphrey Bogart

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
~Roy Campanella

Winners make goals, losers make excuses.
~Anonymous

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
~Paul Gallico

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
~Bo Jackso

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
~Al Gallagher

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
~Bob Feller

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
~Bob Lemon

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
~Bill Veeck

You don’t save pitchers for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
~Leo Durocher

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
~Cy Young

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
~Robert Frost

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
~Harry Caray

You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
~Duke Snider

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

The only way to prove you’re a good sport is to lose.
~Ernie Banks

The best way to catch a knuckle-ball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
~Bob Uecker

I’m never satisfied. I can’t stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
~Mike Schmidt

A knuckle ball is a curve ball that doesn’t give a damn.
~Jimmy Cannon

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
~Lefty Gomez

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
~Toby Harrah

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
~Lou Gehri

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don’t any of these guys ever go fishing?
~Dave Shiflett

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.
~Author Unknown

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
~Bob Veale

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.
~Ken Harrelson

A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
~Joe DiMaggio

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
~Phil Linz

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