Baseball Quotes

Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

Practice hard, Train hard, work hard and Play harder.

It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive sports team nicknames, we will strike out.

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.

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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

The walk-off win provides one of baseball’s most thrilling outbursts, launching a couple dozen tense teammates out of the dugout into a frenzied mosh pit of elation.

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

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.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2, 900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.