Here are the best baseball quotes attributed to famous players or coaches, such as Satchel Paige, Yogi Berra, Pat Gillick, Babe Ruth, Pete Rose and many more.
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-Baseball is about talent, hard work and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect. -Pat Gillick.
-Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. -Charlie Finley.
-The players like the rules. If they had no rules, then they would have nothing to break. -Raymond Lee Walls, Jr.
-The way the team plays will determine its success. You could have the biggest team with the best stars in the world, but if you don't play together, the club won't be worth a penny. -Babe Ruth.
-You must be a man to play baseball for life, but there must also be a small child within you. -Roy Campanella.
-You can't know how much spirit a team has until it starts to lose. -Rocky Colavito.
-The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a passion. -Bryant Gumbel.
-Life always throws curveballs at you, just keep hitting. The correct pitch will come, but when it does, make sure you're ready to run all over the bases. -Rick Maksian.
-Baseball forges men. -Al Spalding.
-It's supposed to be difficult. If it wasn't difficult, everyone would do it. That's why difficulty makes baseball great. -Jimmy Dugan.
-Baseball is ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical. -Yogi Berra.
-It is difficult to beat a person who never gives up. -Babe Ruth.
-I'm ugly. And that? I've never seen anyone hit with their face. -Yogi Berra.
-I never blame myself when I can't hit the ball. I just blame the bat, and if that continues, switch bat. -Yogi Berra.
-Baseball is more than a game for me, it's a religion. -Bill Klem.
-Love is the most important thing in the world. But baseball is also very important. -Yogi Berra.
-Playing baseball for life is like having a license to steal. -Pete Rose.
-The most experienced pitcher gains confidence in his team. You don't try to do everything on your own. -Burleigh Arland Grimes.
- Nothing has ever been as fun as baseball. -Mickey Mantle.
-There may be people more talented than you, but that is no excuse for someone to work harder than you. -Derek Jeter.
-Baseball is like church. Many attend and few understand. -Leo Durocher.
-You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first. -Reggie Jackson.
-No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to remain ordinary. -Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige.
-A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. -Robert Earl Wilson.
-Fans don't boo donnadies. -Reggie Jackson.
-The home runs of yesterday do not win the games of today. -Babe Ruth.
-Each strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth.
-Baseball was made for kids, and adults just screw it up. -Bob Lemon.
-I became a good pitcher when I went from trying to get them to miss the ball, and I started trying to get them to hit it. -Sandy Koufax.
-One does not reserve a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it might rain. -Leo Durocher.
-The pitcher has to see the batter as his mortal enemy. -Early Wynn.
-It doesn't matter how good you are, you will lose a third of the games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win a third. It is the remaining third that makes the difference. -Tommy Lasorda.
-Baseball is not a sport that can be played alone. -Curt Schilling.
-The best feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second best feeling is losing one of the major leagues. -Chuck Tanner.
-Friendships are forgotten once the game begins. -Alvin Ralph Dark.
-If it weren't for baseball, I'd be in the penitentiary or the cemetery. -Babe Ruth.
-If my uniform doesn't get dirty, then I didn't do anything in the game. -Rickey Henderson.
-The best way to catch a knuckle ball is to wait for the ball to stop spinning and then take it. -Bob Uecker.
-Today they have more problems packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. -Robert Feller.
-Never let the fear of being struck out stop you from playing. -Babe Ruth.
-I have come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good batting box. -Bob Lemon.
-Baseball is like driving, the one who returns home is the one that counts. -Tommy Lasorda..
- Baseball, it is said, is only a sport. That's true. And the Grand Canyon is just a hole in Arizona. Not all holes nor all games are created equal. -George Will.
-You have to have character if you are going to go far in this sport. -Bob Gibson.
-One of the most beautiful things about baseball is its history. -James Anthony Abbott.
-The players like the rules. If they had no rules, then they would have nothing to break. -Raymond Lee Walls, Jr.
-The way the team plays will determine its success. You could have the biggest team with the best stars in the world, but if you don't play together, the club won't be worth a penny. -Babe Ruth.
-I throw the ball with a speed of ninety-two miles per hour, but I get hit just as hard. -Joaquín Andújar.
-There is an old saying that money cannot buy happiness. If I could, I'd buy four hits every game. -Pete Rose.
-If you don't think very well, then don't think too much. -Ted Williams.
-Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. -Satchel Paige.
-The way to make coaches think that you are in shape in the spring is by tanning. -Edward Ford.
-There are three types of baseball players, those who make it happen, those who see it happen, and those who wonder what happens. -Tommy Lasorda.
-Any minute, on any day, some players can break a long-established record. That's one of the fascinating things about sport, the unexpected surprises. -Cornelius McGillicuddy.
-The only problem with success is that it does not teach you to deal with failure. -Tommy Lasorda.
-The pitcher must be given the task of determining if the batter is shy. And if the hitter is shy, your job should be to remind him. -Don Drysdale.
-Baseball is the only sport I know where when you are on offense, the other team controls the ball. -Ken Harrelson.
-Baseball is like a game of poker. Nobody wants to stop when they are losing; Nobody wants you to stop when you have the lead. -Jackie Robinson.
-There are only two seasons: winter and baseball. -Bill Veeck, Jr.
-I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone to go after it. -Rogers Hornsby.
-My pitching philosophy is simple; keep the ball away from the bat. -Satchel Paige.
-It's not like football. You can't do tricks. -Yogi Berra.
-Baseball is tedious only in the eyes of boring minds. -Red Barber.
-There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, pitch, catch, hit, and hit hard. -Leo Durocher.
-There are three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain. -Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel.
-Baseball was, is, and will always be for me, the best sport in the world. -Babe Ruth.
-Everyone perceives me as if I'm angry. It is not anger, it is motivation. -William Roger Clemens.
-I've come to realize that baseball is not much different from war, and when you look closely, the hitters are heavy artillery. -Ty Cobb.
-The saddest day of the year is the day the season ends. -Tommy Lasorda.
-Everything looks better when you win. Girls are prettier. Cigars taste better. The trees look greener. -Billy Martin, Jr.
-No matter how long you've lived, you've never seen everything. -Bob Lemon.
-The main idea is to win. -John Joseph McGraw.
-If you don't know where you're going, you could end up going anywhere. -Yogi Berra.
-The game does not end until it ends. -Yogi Berra.
-Playing baseball for money results in home runs. But teaching children to play it is priceless. -Jack Perconte.
-The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired, and then get hired elsewhere. -Dorrel Norman Herzog.
-When you have learned to believe in yourself, you do not know how good a player is. That's because you have the mental advantage. -Rod Carew.
-Do not look back. Someone could be hot on your heels. -Satchel Paige.
-My motto is to always try to hit. It does not matter if I am depressed, if I feel bad or if I have problems off the field of play. All I can do is keep hitting. -Hank Aaron.
-Show me a guy who's afraid of looking bad, and I'll show you a guy who can hit the ball every single time. -Lou Brock.
-No one is going to give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. -Earl Sidney Weaver.
-They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I've found that shake drinkers don't win many games. -Fred McMane.
-People ask me what I do in winter when there is no baseball. I will tell you what I do. I look out the window and wait for spring. -Rogers Hornsby.
-Batting is about knowing how to take advantage of the moments. Pitching is about annoying those moments. -Warren Spahn.
-For a pitcher, a hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. -Steve Hovley.
-A critic once described baseball as six minutes of action diluted in two and a half hours. -Ray Fitzgerald.
-It took me seventeen years to hit the ball three thousand times in baseball. It took me just one afternoon at golf. -Hank Aaron.
-Baseball is a game, yes. But what it really is is combat in disguise. For all its elegance and almost slow pace, it is covert violence. -Willie Howard Mays, Jr.
-Some days you tame the tiger, and other days the tiger eats you for dinner. -Tug McGraw.
-You see, you spend a good part of your life wielding a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around the whole time. -Jim Bouton.
-I never had a job. I just always played baseball. -Satchel Paige.
-Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put yourself before failures and start over. That's life, like a new game every day, and that's baseball. -Bob Feller.
-If you are playing baseball and you plan to lead a team, you are crazy. You better be thinking about owning it. -Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel.
-Think! How can you think and hit at the same time? -Yogi Berra.
-Catching a ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after catching it is business. -Tommy Henrich.
-The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in the determination of the person. -Tommy Lasorda.
-The great thing about baseball is that there is a crisis every day. -Gabe Paul.
-Never let pressure exceed pleasure. -Joe Maddon.