Quotes on baseball
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
Hamill, Pete
The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
Ritter, Lawrence
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
Monday, Rick
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Wilcox, Frederick B.
Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.
Miller, Ray
If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
Allen, Dick
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
Durocher, Leo
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.
Whitman, Walt
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
Veeck, Bill
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.
Shaw, George Bernard
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
Anderson, Larry
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Barry, Dave
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
Tanner, Chuck
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Lemon, Bob
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
Caray, Harry
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Kahn, Roger
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
Royko, Mike
You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.
Sarlette, Bob
Cricket is baseball on valium.
Williams, Robin
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Veeck, Bill
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Hornsby, Rogers
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.
Murray, Jim
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Mantle, Mickey
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
Feather, William C.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Gallagher, Al
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
Cardus, Neville
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Bankhead, Tallulah
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Stengel, Casey
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
Will, George F.
Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion.
Harwell, Ernie
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
Dole, Bob
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
Mantle, Mickey
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
Murray, Jim
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Campanella, Roy
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Harrelson, Ken
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Lau, Charlie
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Williams, Ted
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
Fitzgerald, Ray
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.
Bouton, Jim
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Switzer, Barry
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
Stengel, Casey
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Allen, Woody
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
Unknown, Author
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
Benchley, Robert
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
Klem, Bill
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
Linz, Phil
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Maksian, Rick
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Smith, Red