Famous Baseball Quotes

I am the best in baseball.

All I have is natural ability.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I didn't really say everything I said.

When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Never let your dreams go away.

I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

The one constant in life is baseball

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

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

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

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

One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

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 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do