Baseball Quotes

A game that is loved by many, browse our collection of inspirational baseball quotes. Sayings and quotations that reflect the thoughts of coaches, fans, and players.
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I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.
Cool Papa Bell

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.
Cal Hubbard

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

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
Bill Klem

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the "me" for the "we".
Phil Jackson

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

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

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Phyllis Diller

Always play a game with somebody, never against them. Always win a game, never beat an opponent.
Andrew Bailey

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Sparky Anderson

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Yogi Berra

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
John McGraw

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Dizzy Dean

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
George Brett

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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 know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse

Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball. It's all there in front of you. It's theatre, really. The star is the spotlight on the mound, the supporting cast fanned out around him, the mathematical precision of the game moving with the kind of inevitability of Greek tragedy. With the Greek chorus in the bleachers!
Vin Scully

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. Steve Busby

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Bill Veeck

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

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

I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.
Edward J. McGrath, Jr


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