quotations about 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
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
AL SPALDING
attributed, American Through Baseball
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