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
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
~M*A*S*H, Klinger
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
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.
~George Bernard Shaw
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 knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
~Bob Uecker
I’m never satisfied. I can’t stand satisifaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
~Mike Schmidt
[A knuckleball 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
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
~Jim Murray
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
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
~Walt Whitman
