Anyone know of any good baseball quotes?

Answer 1

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970

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

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark

A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart

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

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz


When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell, 1981


Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997


Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra


I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby


When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ~Vance Law


With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill


That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart


When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~Woody Allen


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. ~Jim Murray


Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. ~Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976


Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. ~Bob Veale, 1966


Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson


Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham


Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton, 1988


Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola


I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. ~Bob Lemon, 1977


It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one. ~Chuck Tanner


Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost

Answer 2

A reporter caught John Kruk smoking a cigarette and asked him " How can you smoke ?You're an athlete To which John replied " I'm not an athlete , I'm a baseball player."
"Today I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the Earth " Lou Gehrig
"He went from Cy Young to syonarra"
Graig Nettles on the trade of his teammate Sparkly Lyle
" The only thing you know about pitching is that you can't hit it" Bob Gibson to his catcher Tim McCarver during a meeting on the mound
"If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself "
Mickey Mantle

Answer 3

From the movie Major League:

"I don't know how they do things in the California Penal league, but at this level we wear caps and sleeves, son."

"Ball 4.... Ball 8.... Ball 12, and Vaughn has walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches. I know these guys are professionals, but how can they be laying off pitches this close?"

Answer 4

Honestly, i can't remember the exact quotes off the top of my head so I'm not gonna try and butcher them. But search Yogi Berra quotes and your bound to find a bunvh of great ones.

Answer 5

Yogi Berra to American League pitchers before an all-star game who were talking about how to pitch to Stan Musial.
"You're trying to figure out in ten minutes what the other league hasn't figured out in ten years."

Answer 6

Theres no crying in baseball

Answer 7

"Ya gotta have a catcher or your gonna have a lot of passed balls".Casey Stengel when ask why he pick a catcher first in the expansion draft.
"I had a better year"Babe Ruth when questioned about making more money then the president.

Answer 8

Hit Em Where They Aint

Answer 9

fly angels fly!..at least i think that's baseball..ya it is, the angel guy helped the other guy hit the ball wiht the stick thingy really hard lmao

Answer 10

"Hit em Where they ain't" ("Wee Willie" Keeler)

"It ain't over til it's over" (Yogi Berra)

"It ain't over til the fat lady sings"

"It's a round bat, a round ball, and you gotta hit it SQUARE"

"Wait til next year"
(said by Brooklyn Dodgers every year they lost the World Series)

"This IS next year"
(when they finally won it in 1955)

"Don't give em nothing good to hit, but don't walk em either'"
(curious advice given to Rookie Pitcher)

"I don't room with the Babe, I room with a suitcase"
(Obviously Babe Ruth had quite a night life)