funny baseball quotes
- “Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.”-Susan Sarandon
2. “It ain’t nothin’ till I call it.” –Bill Klem
3. “I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.”-Bob Uecker
4. “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
5. “If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.”- Bill Veeck
6. “I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.” –Bob Lemon
7. “Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs.”-Tim McCarver
8. “The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.” – Yogi Berra
9. “It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.”-Yogi Berra
10. “If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.” – Dick Allen
life is like baseball quotes
- “Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.” – Pete Rose
2. “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
3. “You always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.” –Joe DiMaggio
4. “Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.” – Robert Lee Frost
5. “In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team’s uniform from another’s.” – Ernie Harwell
6. “A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine: to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.’” –Ted Williams
7. “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
8. “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.” – Bullet Bob Feller
9. “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”–Yogi Berra
inspirational baseball quotes
- “Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the gods.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti
2. “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.” – Lou Gehrig
3. “The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day – just two out of three.” – Casey Stengel
4. “Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, we don’t work out or we’re not strong or this or that. Guys work so hard in baseball, it’s incredible. But people don’t know that.” –Bryce Harper
5. “There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” – Casey Stengel
6. “A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I’d rather walk with the bases loaded.” –Ken Singleton
7. “Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.” – Leo Ernest Durocher
8. “If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.” – Rickey Henderson
youth baseball quotes
- “Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.” – Chase Utley
2. “You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.”- Cal Ripken Jr.
3. “Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you’ve got both, you can play baseball.” – Pete Rose
4. “I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.”- Pete Rose
5. “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
6. “The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.” – Hank Aaron
7. “If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job.” – Brooks Robinson
8. “Baseball gives a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.”-Albert Goodwill Spalding.
9. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
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10. “It was all I lived for, to play baseball.” – Mickey Mantle
11. “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers.” – Earl Weaver
12. “Play this game like the 8-year-old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show. Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from.” – Bryce Harper
13. “I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” – Pete Rose
14. “Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of.”-Johnny Bench.
15. “When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.”- Pete Rose.
16. “Never save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.” – Leo Durocher
17. “There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose.” – Albert Pujols
18. “Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”-Tommy Lasorda.
19. “When you’ve learned to believe in yourself, there’s no telling how good a player you can be. That’s because you have the mental edge.” – Rod Karew
top 10 baseball quotes
- “If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.” –Babe Ruth
2. “Bad ballplayers make great managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.” – Earl Weaver
3. “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
4. “There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” – Tommy Lasorda
5. “Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”-Babe Ruth
6. “You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of a man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”-Roger Kahn
7. “I really love the togetherness in baseball. That’s real true love.” – Billy Martin
8. “The next time someone whines that baseball doesn’t have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.”-Zack Hample
9. “You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. “- Lou Brock.
10. “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game-the American game.”-Walt Whitman.
good luck baseball quotes
- “That’s the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.” – Andrew Benintendi
2. “In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” – Tom Seaver
3. “I’ve found in life the more you practice, the better you get.”-Ted Williams.
4. “I played my best every day. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.” – Joe DiMaggio
5. “It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” – Carlton Fisk
6. “I don’t fraternize with players when it’s time to hit. I’m preparing for the game. It’s the most important time of the day.” – Albert Belle
7. “You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.” – Hank Aaron
8. “Whenever I get into a tough situation…I think of growing up, and I say, ‘This situation won’t be the worst one I’ve ever been in.” – Billy Wagner
9. “A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.” – Joe Torre
10. “I like to be against the odds. I’m not afraid to be lonely at the top.” – Barry Bonds
11. “Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It’s usually best to put them over the fence.” – Jason Giambi
12. “Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.” – Ty Cobb
motivational baseball quotes
- “It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”-Bill Vaughn
2. “I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.”-Barry Lyga
3. “You never know what’s going to happen… And that’s the fun of it!! That’s what baseball’s all about!!”-Keiichi Arawi
4. “Playing baseball for pay – home run. Teaching kids to play the game – priceless.”-Jack Perconte
5. “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”-Mickey Mantle.
6. “Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” – Frank Robinson
7. “People out there said I was too small. It’s those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I’m at right now.” – Tim Lincecum
10. “If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. […] Wrigley [stadium]was a field of dreams. Dreams of eternal glory for the men who ran to the outfield, who took their respective bases, and prepared for battle against those who would dare enter their hallowed realm. Dreams for the kids in the stands, all wanting to don a uniform, kiss their mom’s goodbye, and wield their bats as enchanted weapons destined to knock the cover off the ball.”-Tee Morris