Baseball Quotes
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
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More Baseball Quotes
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
babe ruth— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1996) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller— American baseball pitcher (1918 - 2010)
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
walt whitman— American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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— American baseball player and manager (1918 - 2002)
I just told him to run the bases and don't try to be cocky. He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
carlos zambrano— Scott Rolen
baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
babe ruth— American baseball player (1895 - 1948)
baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
juliana hatfield— American singer-songwriter
What was incredible about Clemente was not only how skilled he was at each part of the game, but this kind of ferocity that he played with on each play of the game — even in years when they were pitiful and they had no chance to get into the pennant or anything like that. He would throw it in, he would pick guys off who got a single who took too much of a turn going around first; there was just something intense about this guy that was not necessarily what was going on in baseball at that moment.
roberto clemente— John Sayles in Ken Burns' documentary Baseball (1994); YouTube video
There was the abortion brief and also the brief in the Wygant case. I had a big hand in writing it, and so did Sam Alito, who had this marvelous phrase saying that a particular African American baseball player would not have served as a great role model if the fences had been pulled in every time he was up at bat, a point which some people were greatly offended by because they thought it to be pamphleteering. I thought it was entirely appropriate.
samuel alito— Charles Fried (Solicitor General 1985 to 1989) in 2003.
All I want to do is play baseball and make a better life for my kid than I had, that's it," Bradley said to a quiet clubhouse. "I love all you guys. ... I'm strong, but I'm not that strong.
milton bradley— Richard Durrett (June 12, 2008). "Texas Rangers' Bradley gets emotional over TV comments". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
To see his boxscore lines ... is to have no idea that the Indians center fielder might very well be the angriest player in baseball.
milton bradley— Alan Schwarz (July 10, 2003). "Bradley knows only one way — the hard way". ESPN. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.
jerry springer— Democratic Veteran, interview with Jo Fish 06/23/03
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.
casey stengel— BBC 'The myths of sex before sport', 12 August, 2004
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. […] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.
stephen jay gould— "Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me", p. 29
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
willem de kooning— Willem de Kooning (1969) by Thomas B. Hess, Content Is A Glimpse, excerpts from an interview with David Sylvester, (BBC), Location, vol.1 no.1 Spring 1963
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
yogi berra
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
lou gehrig— American baseball player who played his entire professional career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees (1903 - 1941)
baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
jackie robinson— American baseball player; the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era (1919 - 1972)
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry— American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (1953 - 1998)
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
Billy Martin— American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager (1928 - 1989)
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Mark McGwire— American former professional baseball player and currently a bench coach in Major League Baseball
The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.
Alex Rodriguez— Dominican-American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman
There's no crying in baseball!
Jimmy Dugan— Said by Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in A League of Their Own (1992)
baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
jacques barzun— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
branch rickey— In 1954.
baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
wilfrid sheed— "Why Can't the Movies Play Ball?," The New York Times (1989-05-14)
I said: "baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
walt whitman— Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV
