This collection of baseball sayings and quotes commemorates baseball’s importance in American life, uniqueness, and similarities to the game of life.
For over a century, baseball has been America’s pastime, ushering in American heroes like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, and Derek Jeter. These quotes will also inspire, motivate, and teach the next generation of stars to carry on the game.
Best Baseball Quotes
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 damn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
Baseball is 90 percent mental, and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Leo Durocher
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.
James Earl Jones
Every strike brings me closer to my next home run.
Babe Ruth
You know, a lot of people say they didn’t want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.
Johnny Damon, after Boston’s 2004 World Series victory.
Playing baseball for pay – a home run. Teaching kids to play the game – priceless.
Jack Perconte
Famous Baseball Sayings
Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don’t have guys who throw it really well, you can’t compete for long.
Tucker Elliot
[Baseball] is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with the increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.
John Irving
A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ballplayers. Baseball is not an obvious game.
Roger Kahn
Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
Vernon D. Burns
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Thomas Boswell
I see great things in baseball.
Walt Whitman
Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.
Stephen King
Check out Inspirational Quotes for Athletes
Good Baseball Sayings
Fenway is the essence of baseball.
Tom Seaver
With baseball, it’s simple. There’s no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label – full count, earned run, perfect game – and there’s a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There’s no room for confusion.
Jennifer E. Smith
I don’t rate them; I just hit them.
Willie Mays
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love.
Bryant Gumbel
It’s amazing what you can do in this sport with a heart and a brain.
Buddy Bell
I led the league in go get ‘em next time.
Bob Uecker
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Steve Hovley
A ballplayer has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Joe Dimaggio
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
Quotes For Baseball Insiders
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
Don’t forget to swing hard if you hit the ball.
Woodie Held
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
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
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
Think. Don’t just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who’s up next? Think.
Ted Williams
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.
Ted Williams
I worked really hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I’d make one a week, and finally, I’d pull a real bad one maybe once a month. In the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig
The only way I’m going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.
Reggie Jackson
Classic Baseball Quotations
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
Reggie Jackson
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn
I love the game; it’s the greatest game on earth; that’s why I can’t understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That’s the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
Eric Davis
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
Jim Evans
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn
Kids don’t learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Bill Lee
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
Robert Smith
You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body, and the right controls the left half. It’s a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill Lee
Game Day Quotes
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin’ a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat.
Ted Williams
If I could run like Mantle, I’d hit .400 every year.
Ted Williams, on Mickey Mantle
Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball.
Yogi Berra
As long as I’m around playing baseball, it doesn’t matter where I am, as long as it’s not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett
Baseball’s rich in wonderful statistics, but it’s hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial’s hitting record. He didn’t care where he was; he just hit.
George Will
Baseball Quotes For Kids
It ain’t nothing ‘till I call it.
Bill Klein, former MLB umpire
If you get three strikes, not even the best lawyer in the world can get you off.
Bill Veeck
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
Bob Lemon
All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a doubleheader.
George Will
Us ballplayers do things backward. First, we play, then we retire and go to work.
Charlie Gehringer
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither one of them works
Charlie Lau
The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up
Bob Uecker
Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting
Yogi Berra
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face
Yogi Berra
I’m glad I don’t play anymore. I could never learn all of those handshakes.
Phil Rizzuto
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher
You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: ‘You never know.
Joaquin Andujar
Kid’s Baseball Sayings
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Bob Uecker
Winning is the most important thing in my life after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Bill Terry
I’d rather be the shortest player in the Majors than the tallest player in the minors.
Fred Patek
The best thing about baseball is there’s no homework.
Dan Quisenberry
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will
With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose
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
Insights on America’s National Pastime
Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game – it, and high taxes.
Will Rogers
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth — You might like Babe Ruth Quotes.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
William Alexander
It’s like deja-vu all over again.
Yogi Berra
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
Finish last in your league, and they call you an idiot. Finish last in medical school, and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
Phil Linz
Inspirational Baseball Quotes
For over a century, baseball has been America’s pastime, ushering in American heroes like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, and Derek Jeter. This collection of quotes commemorates baseball’s importance in American life, uniqueness, and similarities to the game of life. These quotes will also inspire, motivate and teach the next generation of stars to carry on the game.
Baseball is 90 percent mental, and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn
Kids don’t learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Bill Lee
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
Robert Smith
You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body, and the right controls the left half. It’s a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill Lee
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin’ a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat.
Ted Williams
Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Leo Durocher
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.
James Earl Jones
Favorite Baseball Quotes
Every strike brings me closer to my next home run.
Babe Ruth
You know, a lot of people say they didn’t want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.
Johnny Damon, after Boston’s 2004 World Series victory.
Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don’t have guys who throw it really well, you can’t compete for long.
Tucker Elliot
[Baseball] is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with the increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.
John Irving
A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ballplayers. Baseball is not an obvious game.
Roger Kahn
Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
Vernon D. Burns
Love Baseball Quotes
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Thomas Boswell
In a way, an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn’t think you’re safe when you’re out.
Larry Goetz
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Thomas Campbell Clark
The last words to the Star-Spangled Banner? Play ball!
Unknown
I see great things in baseball.
Walt Whitman
Baseball is a good thing. Always was and always will be.
Stephen King
Fenway is the essence of baseball.
Tom Seaver
With baseball, it’s simple. There’s no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label – full count, earned run, perfect game – and there’s a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There’s no room for confusion.
Jennifer E. Smith
I don’t rate them; I just hit them.
Willie Mays
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love.
Bryant Gumbel
Notable Baseball Sayings
It’s amazing what you can do in this sport with a heart and a brain.
Buddy Bell
I led the league in go get ‘em next time.
Bob Uecker
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Steve Hovley
A ballplayer has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Joe Dimaggio
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. And, if you lose at the end, you’re choking.
Gene Mauch
Don’t forget to swing hard if you hit the ball.
Woodie Held
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
Motivational Baseball Sayings
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
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
Think. Don’t just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who’s up next? Think.
Ted Williams
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.
Ted Williams
I worked really hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I’d make one a week, and finally, I’d pull a real bad one maybe once a month. In the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig
The only way I’m going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.
Reggie Jackson
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
Reggie Jackson
Baseball Book Quotations
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn
I love the game; it’s the greatest game on earth, that’s why I can’t understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That’s the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
Eric Davis
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
Jim Evans
If I could run like Mantle, I’d hit .400 every year.
Ted Williams, on Mickey Mantle
Man was not made to travel faster than a baseball.
Yogi Berra
As long as I’m around playing baseball, it doesn’t matter where I am, as long as it’s not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett
Baseball’s rich in wonderful statistics, but it’s hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial’s hitting record. He didn’t care where he was; he just hit.
George Will
Funny Baseball Quotes
It ain’t nothing ‘till I call it.
Bill Klein, former MLB umpire
If you get three strikes, not even the best lawyer in the world can get you off.
Bill Veeck
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
Bob Lemon
All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a doubleheader.
George Will
Us ballplayers do things backward. First, we play, then we retire and go to work.
Charlie Gehringer
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither one of them works.
Charlie Lau
The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up.
Bob Uecker
Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.
Yogi Berra
Humorous Baseball Sayings
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra
I’m glad I don’t play anymore. I could never learn all of those handshakes.
Phil Rizzuto
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher
You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: ‘You never know.’
Joaquin Andujar
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Bob Uecker
Winning is the most important thing in my life after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Bill Terry
Quotes About Baseball
I’d rather be the shortest player in the Majors than the tallest player in the minors.
Fred Patek
The best thing about baseball is there’s no homework.
Dan Quisenberry
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.
George Will
With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose
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
Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game – it and high taxes.
Will Rogers
If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.
Sam Rutigliano
It Ain’t Over til It’s Over — Baseball Sayings
He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
Yogi Berra
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
William Alexander
It’s like deja-vu all over again.
Yogi Berra
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
Phil Linz
In a way, an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn’t think you’re safe when you’re out.
Larry Goetz
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Thomas Campbell Clark
The last words to the Star-Spangled Banner? Play ball!
Unknown
Baseball Player Quotes
There are peaks and valleys in this game. Right now, we’re in a valley – Death Valley.
Kirby Puckett
We have football weather during baseball season and baseball weather during football season.
Herb Caen on San Francisco
Baseball is the only sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George Carlin
Your chances of winning, I’ve got to believe, are really, really small when you score one run in 18 innings.
Clint Hurdle
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Melvin Maddocks
Willie Mays’ glove is where triples go to die.
Jim Murray
Amusing Baseball Sayings
The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.
Casey Stengel
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
The Mets have found ways of losing that I never knew existed.
Casey Stengel
Players have been bought, sold, and exchanged as though they were sheep instead of American citizens.
John Montgomery Ward
In the great department store of life, baseball is in the toy department.
Unknown
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit the ball, I want others to chase it.
Roger Hornsby
Strikeouts are boring – besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic.
Bull Durham
You can’t steal second base and keep one foot on first.
Unknown
Insider Baseball Sayings
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.
Rick Wise
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
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
Inspiring Baseball Quotes
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.
Don Zimmer
Never let good be good enough.
Unknown
Baseball is more than a game to me; it’s a religion.
William Joseph Klem
Never allow the fear of striking out to keep you from playing the game.
Babe Ruth
Find something you love and go after it with all your heart.
Jim Abbott
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Sandy Koufax
Practice perfect today; play like a champion tomorrow.
Unknown
My job is to give my team a chance to win.
Nolan Ryan
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. The home plate don’t move.
Satchel Paige — You might like Satchel Paige Quotations
When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb
The Sultan of Swing Sounds Off
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
Baseball is a lot like life. It’s a day-to-day existence full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
Ernie Harwell
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.
Derek Jeter
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling bad, or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
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
When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
Pete Rose
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
You can’t second guess baseball. You can’t second guess yourself.
Mariano Rivera
Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs while you’re at It.
Whitney Herzog
Play Ball Sayings
You can’t be afraid to make errors! And you can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd because no one can ever master the game of baseball or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock
No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is a man-maker.
Al Spalding
Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen.
Mark Buehrle
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record.
Mickey Mantle
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can’t be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn’t. It isn’t a fluke or a great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it’s a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
Gabe Paul
That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.
Bucky Harris
The Mick — Baseball Sayings
You hit .350. You’re a leader. You hit .250, and you’re not.
Mickey Mantle
At my best, I was as good as anyone.
Mickey Mantle
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
Bob Costas on Mickey Mantle
I don’t think I’ve changed very much. I think I’m the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here, all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That’s all I want to do. If we don’t end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year, then I won’t be happy. That’s all I’m worried about this year.
Alex Bregman
The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
Vin Scully
Baseball is already the world’s most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
Nikki Giovanni
He hits my changeup. He hits my curveball. And he hits my slider. I’ve run out of pitches to throw him. I just try to pick the spots where he’s going to hit his home runs.
Brian Bohannon
My job is to give my team a chance to win.
Nolan Ryan
Big Hitters — Baseball Sayings
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted and that he isn’t going to say every day, ‘Why, oh why, with so many other positions in baseball, did I take up this one.
Bill Dickey
When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Ty Cobb
The main idea is simple: to win.
John Joseph McGraw
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth
Friendships are forgotten when the game starts.
Alvin Dark
No one’s going to give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver
Baseball Captions
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Practice as you have never won and you have never lost.
Baseball is not a game; it’s a way of life.
I got 99 problems, but a pitch ain’t one.
Weekend forecast: baseball.
All about that base.
When life throws you a curveball, hit it out of the park.
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
I love you to the centerfield fence and back.
Never give up. The last swing could win the game.
Yes, I speak fluent baseball.
Instagram Captions
These baseball sayings are great for captions to baseball action photos or spectator images.
I was once told it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose; it’s about how you play the game and have fun. But the game is a lot more fun when you win.
This is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun.
I love baseball. No ifs and or bunts.
Caught my heart.
It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing.
Baseball is what gets inside you. It lights you up.
Baseball is not boring; you are.
Baseball is a religion without mischief.
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Life begins when the season starts.
You can’t lose if they don’t score.
If you build it, they will come.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Eat, sleep, play baseball, repeat.
It’s a beautiful day for baseball.
Living life two bases at a time.
Compete only with yourself.
Give it all you got and help your club win.
Success is not owned, it’s leased, and rent is due every day.
In order to succeed, we must first believe we can.
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.
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played year-round.
Baseball Love Quotes
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love.
Bryant Gumbel
There are only two seasons: winter and baseball.
Bill Veeck
God, I just love baseball.
Robert Redford
I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.
Bert Blyleven
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate – and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life – is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully
Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real-time.
Carol Tavris
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money, and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty Cobb
My wife tells me one day, ‘I think you love baseball more than me.’ I say, ‘Well, I guess that’s true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.’
Tommy Lasorda
I’ve been playing baseball since I was four. I’ve got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.
Hanley Ramirez
I’m not perfect. Nobody’s perfect. But I love baseball, and I love to play hard.
Adrian Beltre
Let’s Play Two — Baseball Sayings
If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.
Joe Torre
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
Frederick Busch
I really love the togetherness of baseball. That’s really true love.
Billy Martin
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around in their mouths like their Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Yogi Berra — Check out Best Yogi Berra Lines
I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.
Willie McCovey
My baseball game was a long, long initiation into a single secret: at the heart of all things is love.
Sadaharu Oh
I didn’t fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory… Love.
Joe Pepitone
Baseball ought never to be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think we love it.
James Kilpatrick
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories. He played pitcher and third base for his North Hills Optimist team growing up.
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