BASEBALL QUOTES
quotations about baseball
Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
WES WESTRUM
attributed, Baseball Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball
There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
TOMMY LASORDA
attributed, Sportswit
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
Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
JOE GARAGIOLA
Baseball Is a Funny Game
Major League Baseball announced today that Alex Rodriguez has been suspended for 211 games. So if you're familiar with baseball's schedule, it means he'll be out for about a month. I think there are 10,000 games in a season.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Aug. 5, 2013
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
MARY MCGRORY
attributed, Return of the Portable Curmudgeon
The New York Mets are planning to move the walls of Citi Field in order to increase the number of homeruns they hit. Call me old fashioned but isn't that what steroids are for?
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Nov. 2, 2011
I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
JOE DIMAGGIO
attributed, Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
JOE DIMAGGIO
attributed, Play Ball!: Quotes on America's Favorite Pastime
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
NOLAN RYAN
attributed, The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.
SHOELESS JOE JACKSON
attributed, Shadows of Summer
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
HANK AARON
Milwaukee Journal, July 31, 1956
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
PETE ROSE
attributed, Baseball: An Illustrated History
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
CASEY STENGEL
attributed, Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader
The game's isn't over until it's over.
YOGI BERRA
attributed, Baseball's Greatest Quotations
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.
HANK AARON
Milwaukee Journal, July 31, 1956
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design--the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI
attributed, The Faith of 50 Million
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
TOMMY LASORDA
attributed, The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
HANK AARON
Mademoiselle, 1978
Baseball is not life and death. But in life and death, we remember the game, and we remember those who shared the game with us.
JEFF ZILLGITT
Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul