quotations about baseball
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
AL SPALDING
attributed, American Through Baseball
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
TOMMY LASORDA
attributed, The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations
It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.
PETE ROSE
attributed, The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball
I walk into the clubhouse and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.
TOMMY LASORDA
Sports Illustrated, May 29, Sports Illustrated, May 29, 1989