Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
Toby Harrah

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Bryant Gumbel

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez

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

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
W. P. Kinsella

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Alvin Dark

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

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

“Baseball wrong – man with four balls cannot walk.
Confucious

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Tallulah Bankhead

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige

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.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
Lawrence Ritter

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

You don’t save pitchers for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher

That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck

A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio

The great thing about baseball is that there’s a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul

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

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

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Bill Bradley

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Bill Veeck

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

I’m throwing twice as hard as I ever did. The ball’s just not getting there as fast.
“Lefty” Gomez

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.
Bill Veeck

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

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

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
Tom Seaver

Getting a ball past his bat is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.

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

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
Alvin Dark

Winners make goals, losers make excuses.
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Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.
Dan Jenkins

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

You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Well, boys, it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
Joe Schultz

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
John Fowles

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.
William C. Feather

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel

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

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
Jim Murray

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

I don’t care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.
Mike Ditka

I have never willingly chased a ball.
Robert Morley

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

If you win through bad sportsmanship that’s no real victory.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The ball was coming in like a Lear jet.
T. Glen Coughlan

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

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
Philip Wrigley

When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.”
Willie Stargell

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

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

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Ken Harrelson

Say this much for big league baseball – it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Bruce Catton

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.
Mike Royko

Baseball isn’t a business, it’s more like a disease.
Walter F. O’Malley

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
Casey Stengel

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.
Don Drysdale

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
Chuck Tanner

A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves.
Brendan Francis

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
Mark Kramer

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Charlie Lau

Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
Larry Anderson

It ain’t nothin’ till I call it.
Bill Klem

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will,

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb